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Transparent city / Ondjaki ; translated from the Portuguese by Stephen Henighan.

Ondjaki, 1977- (author.). Henighan, Stephen, 1960- (translator.).

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A gripping portrait of contemporary urban Africa - by turns magic realist, deeply emotional, and savagely satirical. In a crumbling apartment block in Luanda, impoverished families hoard memories to survive a corrupt regime. Odonato - nostalgic for the days of socialism - searches for his son, a petty criminal. As his hope drains away, Odonato's flesh becomes transparent and his body increasingly weightless.

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  • ISBN: 9781771961431 (softcover) :
  • Physical Description: 318 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, 2018.

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Translation of: Transparentes.

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    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 as the city outside his doors changes beyond all recognition, Odonato’s flesh becomes transparent and his body increasingly weightless. 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, indisputably, among the continent’s most accomplished writers.

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