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Ondjaki: Good Morning Comrades
[978-1-897231]

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978-1-897231-40-1 | Ondjaki | translated by Stephen Henighan | Good Morning Comrades | Fiction | Biblioasis International Translation Series | $15.95

Luanda, Angola, 1990. Ndalu is a normal twelve-year old boy in an extraordinary time and place. Like his friends, he enjoys laughing at his teachers, avoiding homework and telling tall tales. But Ndalu's teachers are Cuban, his homework assignments include writing essays on the role of the workers and peasants, and the tall tales he and his friends tell are about a criminal gang called Empty Crate which specializes in attacking schools.

Ndalu is mystified by the family servant, Comrade Antonio, who thinks that Angola worked better when it was a colony of Portugal, and by his Aunt Dada, who lives in Portugal and doesn't know what a ration card is. In a charming voice that is completely original, Good Morning Comrades tells the story of a group of friends who create a perfect childhood in a revolutionary socialist country fighting a bitter war. But the world is changing around these children, and like all childhood's Ndalu's cannot last.

An internationally acclaimed novel, already published in half a dozen countries, Good Morning Comrades is an unforgettable work of fiction by one of Africa's most exciting your writers.

"Ondjaki succeeds with magisterial skill in engaging the reader thanks to his narrator, a normal child who tells stories full of tenderness and humour." - Sophie Pilaire, Ricochet (France)

Delicate, lyrical and at the same time very entertaining, Good Morning Comrades recreates a Luanda which soon becomes familiar even to those who don't know it." - Terra Magazine (Brazil)

"Ondjaki's language has a liberating power ... The most difficult part of reading this book is turning the last page and leaving these characters behind." -- Rascunho (Brazil)

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