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My Father's Wives

My Father's Wives

by Daniel Hahn (Author), Daniel Hahn (Author), Daniel Hahn (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

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Synopsis

In "My Father's Wives", reality and fiction run side by side, the former feeding into the latter. However, in the territories Jose Eduardo Agualusa crosses, fiction plays a part in reality too. The four characters in the novel which the author is writing as he travels accompany him from Luanda, the capital of Angola, to Benguela and Namibe. They cross the Namibian sands and their ghost towns, reaching Cape Town in South Africa. Then they continue on to Maputo, then Quelimane beside the Bon Sinais River, and thence to the Island of Mazambique. As they drift on, they cross landscapes that border dreams, landscapes from which - there and there - the strangest characters emerge. My Father's Wives is a novel about women, music and magic. These pages herald the rebirth of Africa, a continent afflicted by terrible problems but blessed with a talent for music, by the ever-renewed strength of its women and the secret power of ancient gods.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 382
 Publisher: ARCADIA BOOKS
Published: 26 Jun 2008
ISBN 10: 1905147783
ISBN 13: 9781905147786

Media Reviews
'Fierce originality, vindicating the power of creativity to transform the most sinister acts. His writing is brought vividly home to us by Daniel Hahn' - Independent
Author Bio
Jose 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 Sao 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.