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A colourful cover of Vintage edition is the first thing that drew my attention to the book. While the plot seems risky as it could be boring or it could be something amazing.

There are many story besides Ludo, a main character. Each story so scattered and yet so connected. Agualusa’s writing is beautiful. However, I feel like the book is missing something. For example, how each character connected sometimes feel so forced and rush (which it could have been more beau
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Bogdan
Mar 16, 2024 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: hic-sunt-leones
Africa. Hic sunt leones. And wounds and war and many other atrocities. Angola had it's share of all these and this novel is putting the recent history of the country in the spot light.

There is just a small thing which I usually do not like in such novels, written during or after authoritarian regimes: parables. But I get it is a problem with the censorship in such regimes.
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Beverly
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Beverly
Dec 29, 2014 marked it as to-read
Alyson Zikmund
Mar 30, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Gaijinmama
Jun 24, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Megan
Aug 03, 2016 marked it as to-read
Terri
Aug 15, 2017 marked it as around-the-world
Shelves: modern-fiction
Gabrielle
Feb 04, 2018 marked it as to-read
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J
Jan 07, 2025 marked it as to-read
Angela Schmangela
Feb 08, 2025 marked it as to-read