商品簡介
As the country goes through various political upheavals from colony to socialist republic to civil war to peace and capitalism, the world outside seeps into Ludo's life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, glimpses of someone peeing on a balcony, or a man fleeing his pursuers.
A General Theory of Oblivion is a perfectly crafted, wild patchwork of a novel, playing on a love of storytelling and fable.
作者簡介
Jose Eduardo Agualusa, a writer and journalist, is one of the leading literary voices in Angola and the Portuguese language today. His books have been translated into 25 languages. Four of his books have been translated into English:Creole (2002), winner of the Portuguese Grand Prize for Literature; The Book of Chameleons (2006), which won the Independent Foreign Ficture Prize;My father's wives (2008), and Rainy Season (2009). He has received literary grants from the Centro Nacional da Cultura, the Fundacao do Oriente, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst. Agualusa has also written four plays: W generation, O monologo, Chovem amores na Rua do Matador and A Caixa Preta, the last two written with Mia Couto.
Daniel Hahn is the author of a number of works of non-fiction. His translation ofThe Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007. He has translated the work of Jose Luis Peixoto, Philippe Claudel, Maria Duenas, Jose Saramago, Eduardo Halfon, Goncalo M. Tavares, Corsino Fortes, and others.
