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A General Theory of Oblivion
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ISBN10: 0914671316
ISBN13: 9780914671312
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Published: Dec 15 2015
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 6.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780914671312
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Published: Dec 15 2015
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 6.40
Language: English
Winner of the 2017 Dublin International Literary Award
Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016
Who is this solitary young woman on the top floor of a luxury building in Luanda, Angola's capital, and why has she walled off her apartment? Her name is Ludo...Her brooding presence is inescapable -- Kirkus Reviews
Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016
Who is this solitary young woman on the top floor of a luxury building in Luanda, Angola's capital, and why has she walled off her apartment? Her name is Ludo...Her brooding presence is inescapable -- Kirkus Reviews
On the eve of Angolan independence, an agoraphobic woman named Ludo bricks herself into her Luandan apartment for 30 years, living off vegetables and the pigeons she lures in with diamonds, burning her furniture and books to stay alive and writing her story on the apartment's walls.
Almost as if we're eavesdropping, the history of Angola unfolds in A General Theory of Oblivion through the stories of those Ludo sees from her window in a a wild patchwork of a novel, playing on a love of storytelling and fable.
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