Daniel lives with artist Moira on her native Island of Mozambique.
They are awaiting the birth of their child, while also organising
the island's first literary festival. But as soon as the first
guests arrive, the coast is hit by a cyclone. The island is spared,
but the bridge to the mainland is left impassable, and telephone
and internet connections are severed. The islanders - and the
writers who have come for the festival - are cut off from the
outside world. Left to their own devices, the authors forge new
bonds and make the best of a situation that gets stranger each day.
Some believe they're in an intermediate realm, a kind of limbo, and
some have no choice but to write, as the boundaries between reality
and fiction, past and future, and life and death begin to blur.
Where do we go when it's all over? Perhaps to a small island. This
is a novel about the nature of life and of time, and the
extraordinary power of imagination and the written word, capable of
creating anything and regenerating everything. Translated from the
Portuguese by Daniel Hahn
General
Imprint: |
MacLehose Press
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
Authors: |
José Eduardo Agualusa
|
Translators: |
Daniel Hahn
|
Dimensions: |
198 x 129mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5294-2175-0 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-5294-2175-6 |
Barcode: |
9781529421750 |
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