Jose Luandino Vieira: Our Musseque

Cover: 9781910213070 | Our Musseque | Jose Luandino Vieira | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2016

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Beschreibung

Our Musseque is a tale of growing up in one of the vibrant shanty towns (musseques) of Luanda during the 1940s and 1950s. Weaving back and forwards through his half-remembered childhood, the narrator draws us into a close-knit world of labourers, shopkeepers, drunks, prostitutes and determined women battling to bring up their families, as Angola hurtles towards the beginning of its armed struggle against Portuguese colonial rule. Meanwhile the children laugh, play, squabble and fight, puzzle at racial taunts and move rapidly through adolescence towards sexual awakening and a greater awareness of political realities around them. Written in prison in 1961-62 but not published until over 40 years later, the novel is shot through with a sense of nostalgia for the lost innocence of childhood and a community swept away by the encroaching city, together with the exhilaration, hopes and fears for what is about to come.

Über den Autor

Jose Luandino Vieira was born in Portugal in 1935 and grew up in Luanda. He was one of a group of political activists whose trial in 1959 helped spark the Angolan uprising against colonial rule. He spent most of the following fifteen years in prison or under house arrest, until the collapse of the Portuguese dictatorship in 1974. He has published two novels (Nas, os do Makulusu (1974) and Nosso Musseque (2003)), two novellas and seven collections of short stories,
He now lives in Portugal.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781910213070
ISBN-10:	1910213071
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Vieira, Jose Luandino
Übersetzung:	Patterson, Robin
Hersteller:	Dedalus Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	194 x 128 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Jose Luandino Vieira
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.08.2016
Gewicht:	0,204 kg