Yaka (African Writers Series) - Softcover

Pepetela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0435909622 ISBN 13: 9780435909628

Verlag: Pearson Education Limited, 1996

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Reseña del editor:

Alexandre's father, convicted of murder, is transported from Portugal to Angola. Here slavery exists, and white settlers kill Africans for land. As time passes, the country unites for independence, against new invaders. Alexandre then sees why the enigmatic Yaka statue is such an important symbol.

Biografía del autor:

Pepetela is the nom de plume and nom de guerre of Artur Carlos Mauricio Pestana. Born in Benguela in 1941, he went to Portugal in 1958 to study engineering. Four years later he went to France and then to Algeria, where he studied sociology and was involved in founding the Centre of Angolan Studies. In the late 1960s he was sent to the Cabinda front and took part in the guerrilla war against the colonial army. He was a member of the first MPLA delegation to fly into Angola at the end of the war for independence. Among other responsibilities, PEPETELA has been Deputy Minister of Education and a leading member of the Angolan Writers' Union. Pepetela is the author of many novels including Yaka (1984), which won Angola's National Literature Prize in 1986. The novels Yaka and Mayombe (1980) are also published in Heinemann's African Writers Series. O Desejo de Kianda (The Return of the Water Spirit) was first published in 1995. In 1997 Pepetela was awarded the Camoes Pri

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• Verlag: Pearson Education Limited
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0435909622
• ISBN 13: 9780435909628
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 307