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Whites Can Dance Too
$20.00
SAUDADE TORONTO
Whites Can Dance Too
$20.00
Whites Can Dance Too written by Kalaf Epalanga and translated by Daniel Hahn.
Hours before performing at one of Europe's most iconic music festivals, Kalaf is detained on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant. Trapped in his precarity, his thoughts soon strum to the beat of kuduro, the blistering, techno-infused Angolan music which has taken him from Luanda to Kristiansund, Beirut to Lisbon. Shifting between his reflections while incarcerated, the stories of a friend at the heart of Lisbon's dance scene and those of the immigration policeman who holds Kalaf's fate in his hands, Whites Can Dance Too is at once an exhilarating novel and a transporting paean to cultural roots, to freedom and to love.
Author
Kalaf Epalanga is an Angolan musician and writer.
Best known internationally for fronting the Lisbon-based dance collective Buraka Som Sistema, he is a celebrated columnist in Angola and Portugal.
Whites Can Dance Too is his acclaimed debut novel; it was first published in Portugal by Editorial Caminho (2017). Epalanga is currently based in Berlin.
Translator
Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator, with thirty-something books to his name. He has translated fiction from Portuguese, Spanish and French (from Europe, Africa and the Americas) and non-fiction by writers ranging from Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago to Brazilian footballer Pelé. He has written works of narrative non-fiction for adults and the text of a picture-book for children; and edited a number of reference books including "The Ultimate Book Guides", a series of reading guides for children and teenagers.
His books have won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award.
Language English
ISBN-10 0571371442
ISBN-13 978-0571371440
Item weight 276 g
Dimensions 12.8 × 1.37 × 19.81 cmg
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