The Society of Reluctant Dreamers by Agualusa, Jose Eduardo

The Society of Reluctant Dreamers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781939810489)

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The Society of Reluctant Dreamers by Agualusa, Jose Eduardo

The Society of Reluctant Dreamers

$18.00
The Society of Reluctant Dreamers by Agualusa, Jose Eduardo

The Society of Reluctant Dreamers

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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"False memories and clairvoyant dreams combine in Agualusa's sweeping, intricately plotted tale of personal and political history in Angola . . . " - Publishers Weekly

When Daniel Benchimol--consummate dreamer--uncovers the photographed reveries of a famous Mozambican artist, Moira, his fascination quickly develops to obsession as the sight lines between reality and dreams get harder to bring into focus

Daniel Benchimol spends his dreaming hours interviewing revolutionaries and writers. In this treacherous sleepscape, we find the Angolan anti-communist Jonas Savimbi, Muammar Gaddafi, hunched and hiding in a gutter, and Julio Cortázar as a great billowing tree, speaking to Daniel through an alphabet of clouds. He dreams wild dreams of people he's never met, squinting at them as if submerged in the hazy waters of southern Angola.

When Daniel finds a camera on the beach, he becomes obsessed with the woman in the photos. Moira is a Mozambican artist with a similar preoccupation with her subconscious life - she stages her dreams in her artwork. The two meet, and together they explore the cloudy edges of their nightly visions, tugging at the fringed hem of the real. The Society of Reluctant Dreamers is a delicately crafted glimpse into the aftermath of Angolan independence, a postcard sent to prod the illusion of peace and freedom.

Author: Jose Eduardo Agualusa
ISBN-10: 1939810485
ISBN-13: 9781939810489
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Language: English
Published: 03/24/2020
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.40h x 6.20w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/02/2020
By Jose Eduardo Agualusa
By Jose Eduardo Agualusa
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José Eduardo Agualusa (born 1960) is an Angolan writer. He studied agronomy and forestry in Lisbon before starting his writing career as a poet. His novel Creole was awarded the Portuguese Grand Prize for Literature, and he received the U.K.'s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Book of Chameleons. In 2017 he and his translator, Daniel Hahn, won the Dublin Literary Award for A General Theory of Oblivion.

Daniel Hahn is the author of several works of non-fiction, including the history book The Tower Menagerie. He is the editor of The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature and one of the editors of The Ultimate Book Guide, a series of reading guides for children and teenagers - the first volume of which won the Blue Peter Book Award. His translation of The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007. He has also translated the work of José Luís Peixoto, Philippe Claudel, María Dueñas, José Saramago, Eduardo Halfon, Gonçalo M. Tavares, and others.

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