Book 26, Country 30 - Angola

Creole by Jose Eduardo Agualusa – translated from Portuguese and first published in English in 2002

This was the only fiction book I could obtain set in Angola.  It is a short novel and is partly set in Brazil and Portugal as well as in Angola.  It is written in the form of letters from Carlos Fradique Mendes, a Portuguese adventurer, and starts in 1868. Fradique bears witness to the end of the Portuguese slave trade, and meets and falls in love with Ana Olimpia, a former slave girl.  4/10

6th September 2010