{"product_id":"and-suddenly-the-flowers-withered-and-other-stories-9791220129473","title":"And Suddenly the Flowers Withered and Other Stories","description":"\"Magical, witty and stunning, João Melo's stories bring to mind the work of Borges and Ishiguro and some ineffable otherness that is his alone. Discovering his work could be the highlight of a literary career\".Elizabeth McKenzie\u003cem\u003eCatamaran Literary Reader\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eand Chicago Quarterly Review's editor\u003c\/em\u003e\"Melo's stories make the banal and everyday dramas of the folk of Luanda extraordinary, and the extraordinary occurrences mundane. Suffused with irony and wit, the messages of these stories contain serious, sometimes tragic underlying truths with which we can all identify. What the Brazilian Machado de Assis did for Rio de Janeiro in the late nineteenth century, João Melo does for his native Luanda in the early twenty-first\".David Brookshaw\u003cem\u003eEmeritus Professor in Luso-Brazilian Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eUniversity of Bristol\u003c\/em\u003e\"Western readers who still assume that African societies haven't reached modernity would be advised to follow Angolan writer João Melo as he forges his distinctive African postmodernism. These droll, cosmopolitan, self-aware stories, whose narrators are never innocent of the ills of the society they inhabit, shuffle local and universal cultural references in the certain confidence that they are interchangeable\".Stephen Henighan\u003cem\u003eUniversity of Guelph, Ontario\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAuthor of The World of After\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoão Melo\u003c\/strong\u003e, born in 1955 in Luanda, Angola, is an author, journalist, and communication consultant. He is a founder of the Angolan Writers Association, and of the Angolan Academy of Literature and Social Sciences. He was professor, advertiser, member of the parliament (1992-2017) and minister (2017-2019). Currently, he lives exclusively from writing, and splits his time between Luanda, Lisbon and Washington, D.C. His works include poetry, novels, articles and essays and have been published in Angola, Portugal, Brazil, Italy, Cuba, Spain and US. A number of his writings had also been translated into French, German, Arabic, and Chinese. Some of his stories and poems translated into English appeared in \u003cem\u003eWords Without Borders, Catamaran Literary Reader, Chicago Quarterly Review, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Olongo Africa, The Shallows Tales Review, Lolwe, A Gathering Together, Iskanchi, Gávea-Brown and Brittle Paper.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was awarded the 2009 Angola Arts and Culture National Prize in literature category.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e João Melo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Europa Edizioni Srl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.41d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9791220129473","brand":"Europa Edizioni Srl","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42849470939251,"sku":"9.79122E+12","price":28.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_3be9a4a4-4174-4d33-9978-7921152bfed7.jpg?v=1739569637","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/and-suddenly-the-flowers-withered-and-other-stories-9791220129473","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}