Three stories of forgetting / Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida ; translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Almeida, Djaimilia Pereira de, 1982- Author.

Contributor:

Entrekin, Alison, translator.

Standardized Title:

Três histórias de esquecimento. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/a3531902-1b14-0865-812b-fbe1b129ad4d

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Memory--Fiction.

Memory.

Men--Social conditions--Fiction.

Men.

Enslaved persons--Fiction.

Enslaved persons.

Portugal--Colonies--Fiction.

Portugal.

Genre:

Historical fiction

Novels

Translations

Fiction.

Novels.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

288 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025.

Summary:

"A haunting exploration of the memories of three men and the reverberations of slavery, colonialism, empire, and the limits of their own lives"-- Provided by publisher.

"Three men haunt these pages. Perhaps they are tormented ghosts who cannot find rest. All three have been expelled in some way, sent on solitary journeys into the night. Celestino, an old slave trader, returns to the solitude of his home and garden after a life of horrors. Boa Morte da Silva, an Angolan who served on the Portuguese side in the Colonial War and has become a valet in Lisbon, writes endlessly to his daughter, asking for her forgiveness. And Bruma, an enslaved man, initiates a young writer, Eça de Queirós, into the world of literature. In discrete yet overlapping tales, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's Three Stories of Forgetting explores the experiences of those who live within the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and the Portuguese Empire. In these unstable chapters, we find incarnations of our despair at the questions that history does not answer, and allegories that may yet reveal new ways of seeing through the dark." -- back cover

Contents:

A vision of plants

Seaquake

Bruma.

Notes:

"Originally published in Portuguese in 2021 by Relógio D'Água Editores, Portugal, as Três Histórias de Esquecimento"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9780374612092

0374612099

OCLC:

1478325188