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A GENERAL THEORY OF OBLIVION
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| By: |
Jose Eduardo Agualusa, Danny Hahn (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1846558476 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781846558474 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
25 June, 2015 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Translated from: |
Portuguese |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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 bird's foot. Until one day she meets Sabalu, a young boy from the street who climbs up to her terrace. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Harvill Secker |
| Prizes: |
Shortlisted for Man Booker International Prize 2016.
Long-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2016. |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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