José Eduardo Agualusa

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 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 pursuers and a note attached to a birdâe(tm)s foot. Until one day she meets Sabalu, a young boy from the street who climbs up to her terrace.

A General Theory of Oblivion

A dark literary comedy about an island literary festival that goes horribly - apocalyptically - wrong. By the winner of the Dublin Literary Award. "The limitless possibilities of fiction are brilliantly utilised . . . Ingenious" Irish Times Daniel lives with artist Moira on her native Island of Mozambique. They are awaiting the birth of their child, while also organising the island's first literary festival. But as soon as the first festival guests arrive, the coast is hit by a cyclone. The island is spared, but the bridge to the mainland is left impassable, and telephone and internet connections are severed. The islanders - and the writers who have come for the festival - are cut off from the outside world. Left to their own devices, the authors forge new bonds and make the best of a situation that gets stranger each day. Some believe they're in an intermediate realm, a kind of limbo, and some have no choice but to write, as the boundaries between reality and fiction, past and future, and life and death begin to blur. Where do we go when it's all over? Perhaps to a small island. This is a novel about the nature of life and of time, and the extraordinary power of imagination and the written word, capable of creating anything and regenerating everything. Translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn

The Living and the Rest

romance

O vendedor de passados

O jornalista angolano Daniel Benchimol sonha com pessoas que não conhece. Moira Fernandes, artista plástica moçambicana, radicada em Cape Town, encena e fotografa os próprios sonhos. Hélio de Castro, neurocientista brasileiro, filma-os. Hossi Kaley, hoteleiro, antigo guerrilheiro, com um passado obscuro e violento, tem com os sonhos uma relação ainda mais estranha e misteriosa. Os sonhos juntam estas quatro personagens num país dominado por um regime totalitário à beira da completa desagregação. A Sociedade dos Sonhadores Involuntários é uma fábula política, satírica e divertida, que desafia e questiona a natureza da realidade, ao mesmo tempo que defende a reabilitação do sonho enquanto instrumento da consciência e da transformação.

A sociedade dos sonhadores involuntários

A vida no céu

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.

The Book of Chameleons

Nação Crioula conta a história de um amor secreto: a misteriosa ligação entre o aventureiro português Carlos Fradique Mendes - cuja correspondência Eça de Queiroz recolheu - e Ana Olímpia Vaz de Caminha, que, tenha nascido escrava, foi uma das pessoas mais ricas e poderosas de Angola. Nos finais do século XIX, em Luanda, Lisboa, Paris e Rio de Janeiro, misturam-se personalidades históricas do movimento abolicionista, escravos e escravocratas, lutadores de capoeira, pistoleiros a soldo, demiurgos, numa luta mortal por um mundo novo.

Nação Crioula

Yaşayanlar ve Diğerleri

نظرية عامة للنسيان

Os vivos e os outros

Sevinç Tezcan Yanar

Bukalemunlar kitabı

O novo romance de José Eduardo Agualusa, A Rainha Ginga, conta a vida fantástica de Dona Ana de Sousa, a Rainha Ginga (1583-1663), cujo título real em quimbundo, "Ngola", deu origem ao nome português para aquela região de África. É a história de uma relação de amor e de combate permanente entre Angola e Portugal, narrada por um padre pernambucano que atravessou o mar e recorda personagens maravilhosos e esquecidos da nossa história - tendo como elemento central a Rainha Ginga e o seu significado cultural, religioso, étnico e sexual para o mundo de hoje.

A rainha Ginga : e de como os africanos inventaram o mundo

Félix Ventura geht einer ungewöhnlichen Tätigkeit nach: Er handelt mit erfundenen Vergangenheiten. Seine Kunden sind Minister, Landbesitzer und Generäle, Menschen der neuen angolanischen Oberschicht. Sie alle blicken in eine gesicherte Zukunft, was ihnen jedoch fehlt, ist eine glanzvolle Vergangenheit. Ventura erstellt neue Stammbäume für sie, beliefert sie mit Fotografien von illustren Vorfahren und versorgt sie mit glücklichen Erinnerungen. Doch eines Nachts kommt ein Fremder in sein Haus, dem er eine neue angolanische Identität verschaffen soll. Venturas Schöpfung auf den Namen José Buchmann beginnt den Fremden so sehr zu fesseln, dass er sich zunehmend mit der erfundenen Person identifiziert und sich auf die Suche nach den Figuren seiner gekauften Vergangenheit begibt. Agualusas wendiger Erzähler nimmt uns mit auf eine spannende und poetische Reise durch die wechselnden Landschaften von Erinnerung und Geschichte, in eine Welt, in der die Wahrheit sich von einem Moment zum anderen verändert. "Das Lachen des Geckos" wurde bisher in zehn Sprachen übersetzt und erhielt 2007 den renommierten britischen Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. José Eduardo Agualusa, geboren 1960 in Huambo/Angola, studierte Agrarwissenschaft und Forstwirtschaft in Lissabon. Er veröffentlichte Gedichte, Erzählungen und Romane, die in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt wurden. 2006 gründete er den brasilianischen Verlag "Língua Geral". Er lebt als Schriftsteller und Journalist in Portugal, Angola und Brasilien.

Roman

Das Lachen des Geckos

Um estranho em Goa

apologia das varandas, dos quintais, e da língua portuguesa, seguida de uma breve refuta-cão da morte : romance

Milagrário pessoal

While swimming in the clear blue waters of the Rainbow Hotel, Daniel Benchimol finds a waterproof camera, floating seemingly lost in the sea. He goes on to discover that the camera belongs to Moira, a Mozambican artist famous for a series of photos depicting her own dreams. On seeing the images, Daniel realises that Moira is also the mysterious woman whom he has been dreaming about repeatedly. The two meet, and Daniel becomes involved in a unusual dream experiment with a Brazilian neuroscientist, who's working with Moira on a machine to film and photograph people’s dreams. Meanwhile, Daniel’s daughter Karinguiri, one of Angola’s young dreamers, is arrested along with six friends for staging a protest during a presidential press conference in Luanda. The group go on hunger strike, attracting worldwide press attention, showing the power of young people when they raise their voices against the regime. The Society of Reluctant Dreamers is a surreal, vivid novel about the slipperiness of truth and reality, art versus dictatorship, courage versus fear, change and the old order, amidst the politics of Angola's tumultuous past, present and future.

The Society of Reluctant Dreamers

Barroco Tropical

apologia das varandas, dos quintais e da língua portuguesa, seguida de uma breve refutação da morte

بائع الماضي

Een man in Angola verschaft de nieuwe elite op bestelling een flatteuze stamboom.

José Eduardo Agualusa

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