The Return Dulce Maria Cardoso Maclehose Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Essays And Literary Reference

Everyone Has Gone Away We Too Should No Longer Be Here Luanda 1975 The Angolan War Of Independence Been Raging For At Least A Decade But With Collapse Salazar Dictatorship Defeat Portuguese Is Now In Sight Thousands Settlers Are Fleeing Back To Portugal Escape Brutality Rebels Rui Fifteen Years Old He Lived All His Life And Never Even Visited Far-Away Homeland - Although Heard Many Stories Family Finally Accepting That They Must Return Filled Mixture Excitement Dread Prospect Just As Leaving Airport Father Taken By Leave Without Him Not Knowing If Alive Or Dead Will Ever Find Out What Become Mother Sister Try Rebuild Their Lives New Home This Turns Five Star Hotel Quiet Seaside Suburb Lisbon Where Returnee Families Crammed Into Luxurious Rooms Dozen These Palatial Surroundings Cruel Contrast Reality Becomes Curious Form Purgatory Wait Discover Them Conscious Fact Hardly Welcome Own Personal Struggle Life: Growing Up Dropping School Facing Discrimination Ever-Present Worry Over Mother\ S Deteriorating Health Father\ Fate Then One Night Rui\ Returns From Translated Ángel Gurría-Quintana Σελίδες: 272 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0713 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm