Rainy Season
José Eduardo Agualusa author Daniel Hahn translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Published:2nd Jun '09
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
A journalist - the autobiographical features are quite deliberate - is trying to find out what happened to Lidia, who disappeared in Luanda in 1992, a point in time when the civil war flared up again with unprecedented ferocity after rebel leader Jonas Savimbi and his UNITA movement refused to accept defeat in the country's first free and democratic elections. The story, a tangled mesh of facts and fiction, tells of the disappointment of the two protagonists, which represents the disappointment of a whole nation.
It's not just Arcadia, and I, who have a good opinion of this book: it won the Independent's foreign fiction award for this year, against the usual stiff competition' - Nicholas Lezard's paperback choice, Guardian on The Book of Chameleons
ISBN: 9781906413200
Dimensions: 214mm x 134mm x 24mm
Weight: 280g
264 pages