José Eduardo Agualusa is one of the leading literary voices in Angola and the Portuguese language today. His books have been translated into over twenty languages, several of them into English. He has received literary grants from the Centro Nacional da Cultura, the Fundação do Oriente, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst. Agualusa has also written four plays: W generation, O monólogo, Chovem amores na Rua do Matador, and A Caixa Preta, the last two with Mia Couto.
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The brilliant novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her fu... SEE MORE