A General Theory of Oblivion

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” -- 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

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• Authors: Josae Eduardo Agualusa, Jose Eduardo Agualusa, Jose Eduardo/ Hahn Agualusa, Daniel Hahn
• Assisted by: Daniel Hahn (Translation)
• Publisher: Steerforth press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2015
• EAN: 9780914671312
• ISBN: 978-0-914671-31-2
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 166 mm x 20 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature