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Our Musseque (Dedalus Africa), Printed Books, Historical Ficiton, Africa, Fictio
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Cover and edges may have some wear.”
- ISBN
- 9781910213070
- Book Title
- Our Musseque
- Item Length
- 18.2in
- Publisher
- Dedalus Books The Limited
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, General, Literary, Coming of Age
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 188 Pages
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Product Information
Our Musseque is a tale of growing up in one of the vibrant shanty towns (musseques) of Luanda during the 1940s and 1950s. Weaving back and forwards through his half-remembered childhood, the narrator draws us into a close-knit world of labourers, shopkeepers, drunks, prostitutes and determined women battling to bring up their families, as Angola hurtles towards the beginning of its armed struggle against Portuguese colonial rule. Meanwhile the children laugh, play, squabble and fight, puzzle at racial taunts and move rapidly through adolescence towards sexual awakening and a greater awareness of political realities around them. Written in prison in 1961-62 but not published until over 40 years later, the novel is shot through with a sense of nostalgia for the lost innocence of childhood and a community swept away by the encroaching city, together with the exhilaration, hopes and fears for what is about to come.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dedalus Books The Limited
ISBN-10
1910213071
ISBN-13
9781910213070
eBay Product ID (ePID)
220364518
Product Key Features
Book Title
Our Musseque
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, General, Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
188 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
18.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq9929.V54
Reviews
" Funny, shocking and moving, it makes you nostalgic for a place you have never been." -- Ann Morgan, The Guardian, Growing up in a shanty town in Angola during the '40s is brought to life in this fictionalised account of a childhood darkened by Angola's move towards armed struggle against Portuguese colonial rule. Despair is undercut by the hope as well as the fear of change.Eileen Battersby in The Irish Times, Prostitutes, shopkeepers, children & drunks jostle & collide, giving conflicting accounts of their experiences as the civil war approaches, a conflict that will change their lives for good. Funny, shocking and moving, it makes you nostalgic for a place you have never been.Ann Morgan in The Guardian, Our Musseque twists through a lively cast, among them a cobbler, prostitute,sailor, grocer, policeman, baker, rent collector and various children...This cannot have been an easy book to translate, but Robin Patterson's work is impressive.Lara Pawson in The Times Literary Supplement
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2015-375153
Dewey Decimal
869.342
Series
Dedalus Africa Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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