Central Africa
Angola
Contemporary
Portuguese
Fiction
A coming-of-age novel set in Luanda in the 1990s, narrated by a young boy growing up amid Cuban teachers, food shortages, and civil war, a tender, funny portrait of childhood under socialism and the slow unraveling of revolutionary ideals.
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Ondjaki is among the most internationally recognized voices in contemporary Lusophone African literature
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editorial-summarynot primary textA coming-of-age novel set in Luanda in the 1990s, narrated by a young boy growing up amid Cuban teachers, food shortages, and civil war, a tender, funny portrait of childhood under socialism and the slow unraveling of revolutionary ideals. Ondjaki is among the most internationally recognized voices in contemporary Lusophone African literature
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