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Word Tree (Paperback)
Teolinda Gersao; Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
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R268
Discovery Miles 2 680
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Teolinda Gersao paints an extraordinarily evocative picture of
childhood in Africa and the stark contrast between warm, lush,
ebullient Mozambique and the bleak, poor, priggish Portugal of
Salazar. 'Salazar's forty-year dictatorship in Portugal and that
country's colonial wars in Africa cast their long shadow over
Teolinda Gersao's The Word Tree. This is the first of Gersao's
novels to be translated into English. As the Mozambican Laureano
reflects, ' the men crossing the sea from Lisbon didn't want that
absurd war either'. Laureano's wife Amelia had come to the country
from Portugal in search of a better life, but mentally never leaves
her homeland, whereas her daughter Gita loves the country and grows
up to resent the colonial presence. There are lush descriptions of
the country, while the racial order is starkly spelt out: Amelia
'clings to the belief that fair-skinned people are the very top of
the racial hierarchy, and that dark-skinned Portuguese people are
almost at the bottom, just above the Indians and the blacks'.
Adrain Tahourdin in The Times Literary Supplement Margaret Jull
Costa's translation was awarded The Calouste Gulbenkian Portuguese
Translation Prize for 2012.
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The City of Ulysses (Paperback)
Teolinda Gersao; Translated by Jethro Soutar, Annie McDermott
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R384
R326
Discovery Miles 3 260
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A man and a woman meet in Lisbon and fall in love. City of Ulysses
is their story, and the city’s love story besides. It is a story
that leads readers down multiple paths, through myth and history,
reality and fantasy, literature and the visual arts, the past and
the present, male and female relations, the crisis of civilisation
and the need to reimagine the world.
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