Bibliograph

Saudade, Suneeta Peres da Costa

Type

Label

Saudade, Suneeta Peres da Costa

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Saudade

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Suneeta Peres da Costa

Summary

1960s Angola. A Goan immigrant family finds itself caught between their complicity in Portuguese rule and their own outsider status in the period leading up to independence. Looking back on her childhood, the narrator of Suneeta Peres da Costa's novel captures with intense lyricism the difficult relationship between her and her mother, and the ways in which their intimate world is shaken by domestic violence, the legacies of slavery, and the end of empire. Her story unfolds into a growing awareness of the lies of colonialism and the political ruptures that ultimately lead to their exile

Target audience

adult

Classification