A vida no céu

Synopsis of A vida no céu

«A vida no céu» is the dystopian novel by Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa, published by Quetzal in 2013 in paperback (186 pages, in Portuguese).

After the Great Disaster, the world is covered by water and humanity inhabits floating cities and giant airships called Tóquio, Xangai or São Paulo; the poorest sail on small rafts. The narrator, Carlos Benjamim Moco, aged sixteen, was born in Luanda, a village of rafts; when his father disappears, he sets out to find him.

First edition published on June 7, 2013. The cover includes the «língua comum» mention from Quetzal.

For readers of dystopian science fiction and contemporary African narrative.