The Society of Reluctant Dreamers - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Jose Eduardo Agualusa, Daniel HahnPublish date:2020-03-24Pages:272
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Archipelago BooksISBN-13:9781939810489ISBN-10:1939810485UPC:9781939810489Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Psychological, PoliticalSize:7.40 x 6.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCCGVVBMRK
"False memories and clairvoyant dreams combine in Agualusa's sweeping, intricately plotted tale of personal and political history in Angola . . . " - Publishers Weekly When Daniel Benchimol--consummate dreamer--uncovers the photographed reveries of a famous Mozambican artist, Moira, his fascination quickly develops to obsession as the sight lines between reality and dreams get harder to bring into focus Daniel Benchimol spends his dreaming hours interviewing revolutionaries and writers. In this treacherous sleepscape, we find the Angolan anti-communist Jonas Savimbi, Muammar Gaddafi, hunched and hiding in a gutter, and Julio Cortázar as a great billowing tree, speaking to Daniel through an alphabet of clouds. He dreams wild dreams of people he's never met, squinting at them as if submerged in the hazy waters of southern Angola. When Daniel finds a camera on the beach, he becomes obsessed with the woman in the photos. Moira is a Mozambican artist with a similar preoccupation with her subconscious life - she stages her dreams in her artwork. The two meet, and together they explore the cloudy edges of their nightly visions, tugging at the fringed hem of the real. The Society of Reluctant Dreamers is a delicately crafted glimpse into the aftermath of Angolan independence, a postcard sent to prod the illusion of peace and freedom.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Archipelago BooksISBN-13:9781939810489ISBN-10:1939810485UPC:9781939810489Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Psychological, PoliticalSize:7.40 x 6.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCCGVVBMRK
Jos? Eduardo Agualusa (born 1960) is an Angolan writer. He studied agronomy and forestry in Lisbon before starting his writing career as a poet. His novel Creole was awarded the Portuguese Grand Prize for Literature, and he received the U.K.'s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Book of Chameleons. In 2017 he and his translator, Daniel Hahn, won the Dublin Literary Award for A General Theory of Oblivion. Daniel Hahn is the author of several works of non-fiction, including the history book The Tower Menagerie. He is the editor of The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature and one of the editors of The Ultimate Book Guide, a series of reading guides for children and teenagers - the first volume of which won the Blue Peter Book Award. His translation of The Book of Chameleons by Jos? Eduardo Agualusa won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007. He has also translated the work of Jos? Lu?s Peixoto, Philippe Claudel, Mar?a Due?as, Jos? Saramago, Eduardo Halfon, Gon?alo M. Tavares, and others.
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