José Eduardo Agualusa

Books on prize lists

• A Sociedade dos Sonhadores Involuntários

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  APE 2018 · Shortlist

  The Society of Reluctant Dreamers

  A Sociedade dos Sonhadores Involuntários

  José Eduardo Agualusa · 57 when first published

  Novel · 288 pages · Politics, Satire

  AIAI-generated summary:Daniel Benchimol, an Angolan journalist, keeps dreaming of strangers, and dreams draw him together with a Mozambican artist, a Brazilian scientist and a hotelier with a violent past, in a country whose dictatorship is crumbling.

• Teoria Geral do Esquecimento

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  International Booker 2016 · Shortlist

  A General Theory of Oblivion

  Teoria Geral do Esquecimento

  José Eduardo Agualusa · 52 when first published

  Novel · Historical

  Translated by Daniel Hahn

  AIAI-generated summary:As Angola nears independence amid riots, a frightened Portuguese woman in Luanda bricks herself into her flat, sealed off from her neighbours and the world, and lives there alone for nearly thirty years.