People who trafficked in the past

O Vendedor de Passados

☆ Recommended by Ban Yu, Dan Bao, and Jia Xingjia, directly translated from Portuguese, a murder case, revenge, and a falsified history;
☆ The first African novel to win the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award winner, Agualusa's masterpiece that has set the world literary world on fire;
☆ Agualusa is a representative writer of contemporary Angola and the entire Portuguese-speaking world. He is also a hot candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature in recent years. His works have been translated into more than 30 languages ​​and are a must-read for literature lovers around the world.
☆ With crazy and fantastic imagination, Borges' soul is transformed into the body of a lizard, traveling between dreams and reality, with a mysterious and bright tropical atmosphere;
☆ A model of light narrative, comparable to the exquisite structure and storytelling techniques of "A General Theory of Oblivion".
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"I" am a lizard, wandering around the house, looking down on everything inside and outside the house like a god. Occasionally, I will recall the old days when I was a human in my previous life.
The owner of the house is an albinos named Felix Ventura, a "trader of the past". After Angola's independence, many new rich people emerged. Their only regret is the lack of a decent background. Ventura's job is to create an elegant and noble family tree for them to satisfy their vanity and desire for status.
One day, a Portuguese photographer comes to visit. Ventura names him José Buchmann and creates a fictitious family tree for him. Strange things begin to happen one after another, and the distinction between reality and dreams becomes increasingly difficult. The photographer's true identity, however, reveals traces of Angola's decades of turbulent history.
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Mysterious and luminous, The Man Who Sold the Past is a sheer wonder, its blend of laughter, metaphysics, poetry, and the spontaneity of childlike play.
——Le Figaro, France
Agualusa has woven a rich, opulent, and exquisitely nuanced tale, whose plot moves as swiftly and neatly as Ronaldo's dribbling moves, and whose prose is deft and light, demonstrating the author's mastery.
——Los Angeles Times
The Man Who Sold the Past is a poetic meditation on the truth, a political thriller, and a perfect murder mystery.
——The New Internationalist Book of the Year Award Speech "The Man Who Sold the Past" is full of strong flavor and bright colors, as light as a thriller, as warm and shocking as the most powerful dream, and like a tropical night, both charming and deadly.
- Michael Pye, British writer Agualusa combines the characteristics of Coetzee and Gabriel García Márquez, and is the only choice for the next Nobel Prize winner in Literature among Portuguese writers.
- Alan Kaufman, American writer "The Man Who Sold the Past" has continuous dreams and short and precise meditations. The tone is witty, light-hearted and quirky. It is a collection of thoughts and impressions and is very fascinating.
——The Guardian
Agualusa, one of the most compelling contemporary writers on the African continent, demonstrates in this highly original work that the power of creativity can transform even the most sinister events.
—The Independent, UK
Humorous, quirky, and captivatingly elegant, The Man Who Sold the Past zips by with the color and speed of a lizard.
—The Independent, UK
Like the Portuguese writer Pessoa and the Argentine writer Borges, Agualusa is highly skilled and his fictional world is dazzling... He is a master of multiple genres, switching easily between detective novels, pastoral idylls and inner monologues. He pours full enthusiasm into the characters he writes, and each image is vividly embedded in the reader's heart, calling for the reader's sympathy and understanding.
——The Star

2023-08-01

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