{"product_id":"the-living-and-the-rest-isbn-9781962770200","title":"The Living and the Rest","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Cross J.M. Coetzee with Gabriel García Márquez and you've got José Eduardo Agualusa, Portugal's next candidate for the Nobel Prize”  — Alan Kaufman, author of \u003ci\u003eMatches\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA thrilling tale that considers how the mind bends when the known world ends in a storm’s flash\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e Fiction in Translation Book of the Year and Winner of the Portuguese PEN Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA funny and lively tale about a group of writers stranded at a literary festival turns increasingly ominous as it explores the nature of life and of time, and the extraordinary power of imagination and the written word.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriters from across Africa descend on the Isle of Mozambique to participate in the island’s first literary festival. When a sudden cyclone strikes the land, they are cut off from the mainland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne writer wakes from sleep with lines running through her head, reaching for a small red notebook with \u003ci\u003edream trash\u003c\/i\u003e written on the cover. Another posts a picture of a writing desk gleaming in the ancient light of the Captains-General Palace, now a museum. The caption: “If I had a desk like this, I’m sure I’d write more. I’m sure I’d write better.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgualusa traces their conversations as they wonder together whether the world they know has ended, and what, real or imagined, might come next. They talk, and set pens to paper, in this sometimes-surreal tale of how the physical world is changing rapidly around us and how we can (and must) forge new contexts.\"\u003ci\u003eThe Living and the Rest\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid, multifaceted narrative that offers vital discussion of what African literatures ought to be, about the literary craft, and on literature in general. It is both utopian and dystopian, eerily prescient of events the world has witnessed in the last two years. It is a gem of storytelling.\"—Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey, \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[In] Agualusa’s world . . . the boundaries between the real and imaginary are porous, and dreams become their own reality . . . [In \u003ci\u003eThe Living and the Rest\u003c\/i\u003e] there is a creative renewal that Agualusa believes necessary, especially today.\" —Anderson Tepper, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eThe Living and the Rest\u003c\/i\u003e] is concerned with why people write; what it means to be an “African writer\" . . . It is loosely but precisely engaged in conversations on the workings of writing to perpetuate or interrupt colonial narratives . . . A writer writing writers (writing writers), the novel is a meditation on constructed worlds.\" —Theodore Anderson, \u003ci\u003eNewcity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Living and the Rest\u003c\/i\u003e isn't merely a literary festival-novel . . . the writers have a lot to deal with, in their various encounters, books they come across—and are trying to write—and the weight of past and present, neither of which can be escaped.\" —M.A.Orthofer, \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An impressively skilled and original storyteller, author José Eduardo Agualusa has elevated his original and deftly crafted novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Living and the Rest\u003c\/i\u003e to an imposing level of literary excellence.\" —\u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Agualusa’s novel is much more inventive and outward-looking than your typical writers’ panel, devoting time to the peculiarities of perspective and the vagaries of contemporary history, with a particular focus on the dense interweaving of culture, religion and art that characterizes life on the island. . . [\u003ci\u003eThe Living and the Rest\u003c\/i\u003e] successfully sublimates political, cultural and human concerns into daily life.\" —Robert Rubsam, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"In José Eduardo Agualusa’s clever and appealing \u003ci\u003eThe Living and the Rest . . . \u003c\/i\u003edisaster yields to the same contest of wills, domesticated intrigues, and creative urges going on around the world amid talk about book tours, festivals, workshops, residencies, panels, publishers, agents, how to become more visible on the Internet.\" —Tom Wilhelmus, \u003ci\u003eThe Hudson Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJosé Eduardo Agualusa\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the leading voices in the Portuguese language today. In 2019,  Agualusa received the Angolan National Prize for Culture and Arts. He  won the International Dublin Literary Award in 2017 for \u003ci\u003eA General Theory of Oblivion\u003c\/i\u003e. Also available in English are \u003ci\u003eCreole\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Chameleons\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Society of Reluctant Dreamers\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMy Father’s Wives\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRainy Season\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eA Practical Guide to Levitation\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Living and the Rest \u003c\/i\u003ewon the 2021 Portuguese PEN Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Hahn\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, editor, and translator. He is the author of several works of non-fiction, including \u003ci\u003eThe Tower Menagerie\u003c\/i\u003e.  His translations (from Portuguese, Spanish, and French) include fiction  from Africa, Europe and Latin America, and he has translated works by  Machado de Assis, José Luís Peixoto, María Dueñas, José Saramago,  Eduardo Halfon, Corsino Fortes, and Roger Mello.","brand":"Archipelago","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300411527397,"sku":"NP9781962770200","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781962770200.jpg?v=1767740287","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-living-and-the-rest-isbn-9781962770200","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}