Teoria general de l'oblit

Synopsis of Teoria general de l'oblit

«Teoria general de l'oblit» is the contemporary novel by José Eduardo Agualusa, published by Edicions del Periscopi in paperback (256 pages, in Catalan).

On the eve of Angola's independence, Ludo, a young Portuguese woman terrified by the uprising, walls herself in behind a brick barrier for twenty-eight years. She survives by growing vegetables and hunting pigeons, with her albino dog Fantasma, and writes with charcoal. Meanwhile, Angola moves from liberation to civil war and capitalism.

Volume 26 of the Antípoda collection. Translated from the Portuguese by Pere Comellas Casanova, with a foreword by Xavier Aldekoa. Original title: Teoria Geral do Esquecimento.

For readers of contemporary and historical fiction seeking stories based on real events and set in Angola.