La Reina Ginga - Agualusa, José Eduardo
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Ginga was an unforgettable queen in Angola during the 17th century; determined warrior, lucid and cunning ruler; she rebuilt her kingdom several times, commanded armies, negotiated and battled the great powers and other African rulers. She had a fiery and voracious private life and until her final days she was the owner of her destiny. In this novel, Jose Eduardo Agualusa reclaims such an unknown and unforgettable character with the hand of a born priest in Pernambuco, narrating the history of Ginga. Going inside a hidden territory and captivated by a form of life that he never imagined,…mehr

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Ginga was an unforgettable queen in Angola during the 17th century; determined warrior, lucid and cunning ruler; she rebuilt her kingdom several times, commanded armies, negotiated and battled the great powers and other African rulers. She had a fiery and voracious private life and until her final days she was the owner of her destiny. In this novel, Jose Eduardo Agualusa reclaims such an unknown and unforgettable character with the hand of a born priest in Pernambuco, narrating the history of Ginga. Going inside a hidden territory and captivated by a form of life that he never imagined, through his eyes we discover a sensual world, vital and raw, where despite the cruelty, the greed and relentless rules of power, hides the possibility for love and beauty.
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José Eduardo Agualusa, nació en Angola en diciembre de 1960. Vivió en Angola, Portugal y Brasil, y actualmente reside en Luanda, capital de Angola. Es escritor y periodista. Sus libros han sido traducidos a 25 idiomas y entre ellos deben destacarse A conjura (1988), Premio Revelación Sonangol; Nación criolla (1997), ganador del Gran Premio de Literatura RTP y El vendedor de pasados (2004), cuya edición en inglés, aparecida en 2006, ganó el Independent Foreign Fiction. Fue becado por el Centro Nacional de la Cultura y el Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dients. En 2018 su obra Teoría general del olvido (2012) ganó el XIX Premio Llibreter de novela. Además ha publicado La reina Ginga y su última novela publicada en 2019 es La sociedad de los soñadores involuntarios Jose Eduardo Agualus is a writer and a journalist. His books have been translated into 25 languages. Some of the most notable award-winning titles include A conjura, Nación criolla, El venedor de pasados and Teoría general del olvido.