{"product_id":"granma-nineteen-and-the-soviet-s-secret-written","title":"Granma Nineteen and the Soviet’s Secret","description":"\u003cp\u003eGranma Nineteen and the Soviet’s Secret written by Ondjaki translated by Stephen Henighan. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTHE WINNER OF THE 2013 JOSE Saramago, Prize  AFRICA39\/UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy the beaches of Luanda, the Soviets are building a grand mausoleum in honour of the Comrade President. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGranmas 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.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNaalu de Almeida (born 1977) is a writer from Angola, writing under the pen name Ondjaki. He lives in Luanda. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOndjaki has been awarded the Grande Prémio de\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConto 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\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e Sovietico.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003eTranslator\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003eStephen 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable id=\"productDetails_techSpec_section_1\" class=\"a-keyvalue prodDetTable\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"a-span3 prodDetSectionEntry a-text-bold\"\u003eLanguage\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"a-span9 a-align-center prodDetSectionEntry\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‎English \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"a-span3 prodDetSectionEntry a-text-bold\"\u003ePrint length\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"a-span9 a-align-center prodDetSectionEntry\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e176 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"a-span3 prodDetSectionEntry a-text-bold\"\u003eISBN-10\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"a-span9 a-align-center prodDetSectionEntry\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"tel:1927428653\"\u003e1927428653\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"a-span3 prodDetSectionEntry a-text-bold\"\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"a-span9 a-align-center prodDetSectionEntry\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e978-1927428658\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"SAUDADE TORONTO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48684796969183,"sku":null,"price":19.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1251\/1761\/files\/01929E42-387E-47DB-9FA0-6C53705C8B37.jpg?v=1774577647","url":"https:\/\/saudadetoronto.com\/products\/granma-nineteen-and-the-soviet-s-secret-written","provider":"SAUDADE TORONTO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}