João Melo's writing strikes a delicate balance between the strange and the absurd, earning comparisons to Borges and Ishiguro. In this collection, he subtly captures the daily lives of Luandans with an alluring, understated style.
"Magical, witty and stunning, João Melo's stories bring to mind the work of Borges and Ishiguro and some ineffable otherness that is his alone. Discovering his work could be the highlight of a literary career". Elizabeth McKenzie Catamaran Literary Reader and Chicago Quarterly Review's editor
"Melo's stories make the banal and everyday dramas of the folk of Luanda extraordinary, and the extraordinary occurrences mundane. Suffused with irony and wit, the messages of these stories contain serious, sometimes tragic underlying truths with which we can all identify. What the Brazilian Machado de Assis did for Rio de Janeiro in the late nineteenth century, João Melo does for his native Luanda in the early twenty-first". David Brookshaw Emeritus Professor in Luso-Brazilian Studies University of Bristol
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