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Shadows of Your Black Memory (Paperback)
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Shadows of Your Black Memory (Paperback)
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Loot Price R454
Discovery Miles 4 540
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Set during the last years of Spanish rule in Equatorial Guinea,
Shadows of Your Black Memory presents the voice of a young African
man reflecting on his childhood. Through the idealistic eyes of the
nameless protagonist, Donato Ndongo portrays the cultural conflicts
between Africa and Spain, ancestral worship competing with
Catholicism, and tradition giving way to modernity. The backdrop of
a nation moving toward a troubled independence parallels the young
man's internal struggle to define his own identity. Now in
paperback, Shadows of Your Black Memory masterfully exposes the
cultural fissures of Ndongo's native land. "Spanish Guinea" is a
heated, sensual landscape with exotic animals and trees, ancient
rituals, ghosts, saints, and sinners. We come to know the
narrator's extended family, the people of his village, merchants,
sorcerers, and Catholic priests; we see them critically at times,
even humorously, yet always with compassion and a magical dignity.
Michael Ugarte's sensitive translation captures the spirit of the
original Spanish prose and makes Ndongo's powerful, gripping tale
available to English-speaking readers for the first time.
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