Transparent City

Transparent City
Ondjaki, Stephen Henighan
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Trade Paperback
h210 x 135mm - 352pg
7 Oct 2021 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781787703209
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A blend of stylised surrealism and harrowing realism. "-LitHub In a crumbling apartment block in the Angolan city of Luanda, families work, laugh, scheme, and get by. In the middle of it all is the melancholic Odonato, nostalgic for the country of his youth and searching for his lost son. As his hope drains away and the city outside his doors changes beyond all recognition, Odonato' s flesh becomes transparent and his body increasingly weightless. Alongside, disparate stories are woven into the narrative, spanning from the tragic to the comic, from the surreal to the every-day, culminating into a depiction of near-future Luanda. A captivating blend of magical realism, scathing political satire, tender comedy, and literary experimentation, Transparent City offers a gripping and joyful portrait of urban Africa quite unlike any before yet published in English, and places Ondjaki among the continent' s most accomplished writers. NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARDA VANITY FAIR HOT TYPE BOOK FOR APRIL 2018A VULTURE MUST-READ TRANSLATED BOOKA LIT HUB FAVOURITE BOOK OF THE YEARA WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATION OF 2018
"Ondjaki is experimentally bold, and his prose shifts through a kaleidoscope of registers, from the poetic to the political, the erotic to the absurd. " "Ondjaki' s prose pulses with life. . . shine[s] with an unexpected clarity. " "A blend of stylized surrealism and harrowing realism. "
Ondjaki is the most prominent African writer of Portuguese from the generations born after Portugal' s former colonies achieved independence in 1975. He has written poetry, children' s books, short stories, novels, drama and film scripts. Stephen Henighan is an author, a columnist for Geist magazine, and a contributor to publications such as The Walrus and The TLS.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781787703209
Published: 7 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Europa Editions (UK)
Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 352

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