Informationen zum Autor Jose Eduardo Agualusa was born in Huambo in 1960 and is one of the leading young literary voices from Angola, and from the 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 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 in 2007. The Rainy Season was published in 2008. Agualusa lives on the island of Mozambique. Klappentext This unusual novel about the landscape of memory and its inconsistencies follows Felix Ventura as he trades in a curious commodity--selling people different pasts. Vorwort Jose Eduardo Agualusa's brilliant debut novel about the transformative power of creativity, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Zusammenfassung Jose Eduardo Agualusa's brilliant debut novel about the transformative power of creativity, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

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Jose Eduardo Agualusa's brilliant debut novel about the transformative power of creativity, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

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Jose Eduardo Agualusa was born in Huambo in 1960 and is one of the leading young literary voices from Angola, and from the 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 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 in 2007. The Rainy Season was published in 2008. Agualusa lives on the island of Mozambique.

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This unusual novel about the landscape of memory and its inconsistencies follows Felix Ventura as he trades in a curious commodity--selling people different pasts.

Zusammenfassung

'**Ingenious, consistently taut and witty' TLS**

'Humorous and quizzical, with a light touch on weighty themes, the narrative darts about with lizard-like colour and velocity' Independent

'Strange, elliptical, charming' Guardian

'A poetic, beguiling meditation on truth and storytelling . . . from the dreamscapes of magical realism to a gripping political thriller and even a murder mystery' New Internationalist****

Félix Ventura trades in memories, a slippery character selling new pasts to people whose bright futures lack only a good lineage, and wiping clean the slate of their identity.

In a narrative that darts between past and present Angola, a bookish albino man, a beautiful woman, a mysterious foreigner and a witty talking lizard come together to discover their real origins. For theirs is a world where the truth seems to shift from moment to moment and where history itself is up for grabs . . .

WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE

'A work of fierce originality' Independent

'Without doubt one of the most important Portuguese-language writers of his generation' ANTÓNIO LOBO ANTUNES

'Cross J. M. Coetzee with Gabriel García Márquez and you've got José Eduardo Agualusa' ALAN KAUFMAN

Translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn