The Living and the Rest
“Cross J.M. Coetzee with Gabriel García Márquez and you've got José Eduardo Agualusa, Portugal's next candidate for the Nobel Prize” — Alan Kaufman, author of Matches
A thrilling tale that considers how the mind bends when the known world ends in a storm’s flash
A Financial Times Fiction in Translation Book of the Year and Winner of the Portuguese PEN Prize
A funny and lively tale about a group of writers stranded at a literary festival turns increasingly ominous as it explores the nature of life and of time, and the extraordinary power of imagination and the written word.
Writers from across Africa descend on the Isle of Mozambique to participate in the island’s first literary festival. When a sudden cyclone strikes the land,…