Book description
Set in contemporary Angola, this book is about the landscape of
memory, its inconsistencies and its randomness.
José Eduardo Agualusa was born in Huambo in 1960 and is one of the
leading young literary voices from Angola, and from Portuguese language
today. His first book, The Conspiracy, a historical novel set in São
Paulo de Luanda between 1880 and 1911, paints a fascinating portrait of
a society marked by opposites, in which only those who can adapt have
any chance of success. Creole, which has evoked comparisons with Bruce
Chatwin's The Viceroy of Ouidah, was awarded the Portuguese Grand Prize
for Literature, while The Book of Chameleons won the Independent Foreign
Fiction Prize 2007. Agualusa divides his time between Angola, Brazil and
Portugal.
