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The living and the rest / José Eduardo Agualusa ; translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn.
Van Pelt Library PQ9929.A39 V58813 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Agualusa, José Eduardo, 1960- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Vivos e os outros. English
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Authors--Fiction.
- Authors.
- Cyclones--Fiction.
- Cyclones.
- Islands--Fiction.
- Islands.
- Imagination--Fiction.
- Imagination.
- Time--Fiction.
- Time.
- Climatic changes--Fiction.
- Climatic changes.
- Mozambique--Fiction.
- Mozambique.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Agualusa, José Eduardo, 1960---Translations into English.
- Agualusa, José Eduardo.
- Genre:
- Humorous fiction.
- Satirical fiction.
- Magic realist fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 272 pages ; 17 cm
- Edition:
- First Archipelago Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2025.
- Summary:
- A funny and lively tale about a group of writers stranded at a literary festival turns increasingly ominous as it explores the nature of life and of time, and the extraordinary power of imagination and the written word. Writers from across Africa descend on the Isle of Mozambique to participate in the island's first literary festival. When a sudden cyclone strikes the land, they are cut off from the mainland. One writer wakes from sleep with lines running through her head, reaching for a small red notebook with dream trash written on the cover. Another posts a picture of a writing desk gleaming in the ancient light of the Captains-General Palace, now a museum. The caption: "If I had a desk like this, I'm sure I'd write more. I'm sure I'd write better." Agualusa traces their conversations as they wonder together whether the world they know has ended, and what, real or imagined, might come next. They talk, and set pens to paper, in this sometimes-surreal tale of how the physical world is changing rapidly around us and how we can (and must) forge new contexts.
- Notes:
- Colophon has mispelling of original title 'Os viaos e os outros'.
- ISBN:
- 9781962770200
- 1962770206
- OCLC:
- 1442322451
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