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La caída by Albert Camus ES

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Country: Africa / Algeria flag Algeria
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La obra literaria, periodística y filosófica de Albert Camus (1913-1960) sirvió de orientación ética y de estímulo intelectual a la generación europea llegada a la madurez tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial y marcada por los horrores y sufrimientos de la contienda. Publicada en 1956, un año antes de que se le concediera el Premio Nobel, " La caída " fue tras " El extranjero " y " La peste " , la tercera y última novela de Camus, quien reflejó en ella la desesperación del hombre contemporáneo, condenado a vivir en un mundo dominado por el absurdo y forzado a descubrir, tras las ilusiones de la feli... continue

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Adolfo Kaminsky : A Forger's Life by Sarah Kaminsky EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Algeria flag Algeria
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The gripping true story of a life-long forger working for the French Resistance and clandestine organizations, told to his daughter.

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So Vast the Prison : A Novel by Assia Djebar EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Algeria flag Algeria
Description:
So Vast the Prison is the double-threaded story of a modern, educated Algerian woman existing in a man's society, and, not surprisingly, living a life of contradictions. Djebar, too, tackles cross-cultural issues just by writing in French of an Arab society (the actual act of writing contrasting with the strong oral traditions of the indigenous culture), as a woman who has seen revolution in a now post-colonial country, and as an Algerian living in exile. In this new novel, Djebar brilliantly plays these contradictions against the bloody history of Carthage, a great civilization the Berbers we... continue

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L'amour, la fantasia : roman by Assia Djebar FR

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Country: Africa / Algeria flag Algeria
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Nous glissons du passé lointain au passé proche, de la troisième personne, à la première ; extraordinaire évocation du père, instituteur de français, de la mère, des cousines, des femmes cloîtrées vives et dont le cri et l'amour nous poursuivent. Assia Djebar, sans conteste la plus grande romancière du Maghreb, nous donne ici son œuvre la plus aboutie.

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A General Theory of Oblivion by Jose Eduardo Agualusa EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Africa / Angola flag Angola
Description:
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017 A finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home. The outside world slowly seeps into Ludo’s life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, glimpses of a man fleeing his... continue

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Good morning comrades : a novel by Ondjaki EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Angola flag Angola
Description:
Luanda, Angola, 1990. Ndalu is a normal twelve-year old boy in an extraordinary time and place. Like his friends, he enjoys laughing at his teachers, avoiding homework and telling tall tales. But Ndalu's teachers are Cuban, his homework assignments include writing essays on the role of the workers and peasants, and the tall tales he and his friends tell are about a criminal gang called Empty Crate which specializes in attacking schools. Ndalu is mystified by the family servant, Comrade Antonio, who thinks that Angola worked better when it was a colony of Portugal, and by his Aunt Dada, who liv... continue


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My Father's Wives by José Eduardo Agualusa EN

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Country: Africa / Angola flag Angola
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"Celebrated Angolan musician Faustino Manso has just died, leaving seven wives and eighteen children scattered across southern Africa. His youngest daughter, Laurentina, arrives in Angola from her home in Portugal to trace the story of the father she never knew." "My Father's Wives is the story of Laurentina's journey, but this fiction also runs in parallel with Jose Eduardo Agualusa's story of the novel's genesis, as writer and characters travel the southern African coast, from Angola, through Namibia and South Africa, to Mozambique, meeting extraordinary people and discovering Faustino's sec... continue

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The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Africa / Angola flag Angola
Description:
This unusual novel about the landscape of memory and its inconsistencies follows Felix Ventura as he trades in a curious commodity—he sells people different pasts. He can create entirely new pasts full of better memories and complete with new lineage or augment existing pasts as needed. Narrated by an exceptionally articulate and rather friendly lizard that lives on Felix’s living-room wall, this richly detailed story explores how people can remember things that never happened—and with extraordinary vividness—even as they forget things that did in fact occur.
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A Practical Guide to Levitation : Stories by Jose Eduardo Agualusa EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Angola flag Angola
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A luminous collection of dryly humorous stories that revel in the surreal and fantastic, from the pen of José Eduardo Agualusa, winner of the International Dublin Literary Award Perfect for readers of Haruki Murakami, Julio Cortázar, and Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift Vividly translated into English for the first time by long-time Agualusa collaborator Daniel Hahn, the jewel-like tales gathered in this collection are an exuberant celebration of story-telling in all its various forms. On the sands of Itamaracá, an old fisherman dreams of fish: shad in the morning, when the water’s smooth and s... continue