The Living and the Rest

The limitless possibilities of fiction are brilliantly utilised in José Eduardo Agualusa’s novel The Living and The Rest … Ingenious. – Declan O’Driscoll * Irish Times *Agualusa’s funny and lively tale turns increasingly ominous ahead of an explosive conclusion. I give it four stars - and a half – John Self * Guardian *Perfect for those who like their beach reads served with a spritz of postmodernism. * Strong Words *

Jose Eduardo Agualusa was born in Huambo in 1960 and is one of the leading young literary voices from Angola, and from the Portuguese language today. His first book, The Conspiracy, a historical novel set in Sao Paulo de Luanda between 1880 and 1911, paints a fascinating portrait of a society marked by opposites, in which those who can adapt have any chance of success. Creole was awarded the Portuguese Grand Prize for Literature, while The Book of Chameleons won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007. He and his translator, Daniel Hahn, won the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award for The General Theory of Oblivion and the novel was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. In 2019, Agualusa won Angola’s most prestigious literary award, the National Prize for Culture and Arts. Agualusa lives on the Island of Mozambique.

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