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Granma Nineteen and the Soviet’s Secret
$19.00
SAUDADE TORONTO
Granma Nineteen and the Soviet’s Secret
$19.00
Granma Nineteen and the Soviet’s Secret written by Ondjaki translated by Stephen Henighan.
THE WINNER OF THE 2013 JOSE Saramago, Prize AFRICA39/UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE
By the beaches of Luanda, the Soviets are building a grand mausoleum in honour of the Comrade President. Granmas are houses, they say, will be "dexploded," and everyone will have to leave. With the help of his friends Charlita and Pi (whom everyone calls 3.14), and with assistance from Dr. Rafael Knockknock, the Comrade Gas Jockey, the amorous Gudafterov, crazy Sea Foam, and a ghost, our young hero must decide exactly how much trouble he s willing to face to keep his Granma safe in Bishop s Beach. Energetic and colourful, impish and playful, "Granma Nineteen and the Soviet s Secret" is a charming coming-of-age story from the next rising star in African literature."
Author
Naalu de Almeida (born 1977) is a writer from Angola, writing under the pen name Ondjaki. He lives in Luanda. He completed his degree in Sociology in Lisbon in 2002 with a study on the great Angolan writer Luandino Vieira. A versatile young talent and a most promising writer of the Portuguese language in Africa, he has already had paintings exhibited, given public performances as an actor, as well as published his own poems and novels. Ondjaki has been awarded the Grande Prémio de
Conto Camilo Castelo Branco 2008 by the Portuguese Writers' Association for his novel Os da Minha Rua. In 2008 he was distinguished with the Grinzane for Africa award, in the category of young writer, and recently, Ondjaki has won the prestigious Jabuti Prize 2010 with his juvenile book AvóDezanove e o Segredo do Sovietico.
Translator
Stephen Patrick Glanvill Henighan was born in Hamburg, and The remainder of his upbringing took place on a farm in Eastern Ontario. Stephen teaches Spanish American literature at the University of Guelph, Ontario. Henighan has written short stories and novels about immigrants and travellers. For his fiction Stephen has won the Potter Short Story Prize and a McNally-Robinson Fiction Prize. For his non-fiction he has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Canada Prize in the Humanities, a National Magazine Award and a Western Magazine Award.
| Language | English |
| Print length | 176 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1927428653 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1927428658 |
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