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by Uanhenga Xitu, Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho, Antonio Jacinto (intro), Annella McDermott (trans)
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Angola: União dos Escritores Angolanos + Empresa Nacional de Prospecção, Exploração, Lapidação e Comercialização de Diamantes de Angola, 1989. Hardcover. Green cloth in boards. An extremely rare copy of the Angolan publication of the first English translation of Xitu's classic "Mestre" Tamoda stories. Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. Minor shelfware and dust soiling to edges. Binding tight and square. Interior unmarked other than and a price penciled on the front free endpaper. 159 pages.
Introduction by Antonio Jacinto, translated by Annella McDermott. Cover art by Henrique Abranches. Originally published in Portuguese in Angola in 1974 as Os Discursos do 'Mestre' Tamoda. This edition "Published jointly in the Popular Republic of Angola by agreement between the Author, the Union of Angolan Authors and the ENDIAMA-UEE, to by used as an offer by the three entities, with no commercial purposes."
Xitu conceived these stories while serving twelve years in a Portuguese prison for his political activities supporting independence for Angola. The World of "Mestre" Tamoda is the first of eleven books. Set in the 1940s, the tales in this book are divided into three sections: '"Mestre" Tamoda' introduces us to the prolix Tamoda, who refers to a toothpick as a 'wooden dental probe.' In 'The Village,' Tamoda displays his 'verbal dexterosity' at a funeral and a soccer match. 'The Town,' the best in the collection, centers on Maraja, a black tennis coach, and Arlete Pinto, the daughter of Portuguese parents. Social climbers, the Pintos are scandalized by their daughter's affair with a 'bush black.' Once, on a visit to Johannesburg, they made Arlete stay in the hotel alone because her skin was 'too dark.' Her great-grandmother, they are loathe to admit, was black. To protest the Pintos' racism, the town stages a mock wedding with Arlete and Maraja as bride and groom. The three stories provide a trenchant and comic insight into prerevolutionary Angola.
Introduction by Antonio Jacinto, translated by Annella McDermott. Cover art by Henrique Abranches. Originally published in Portuguese in Angola in 1974 as Os Discursos do 'Mestre' Tamoda. This edition "Published jointly in the Popular Republic of Angola by agreement between the Author, the Union of Angolan Authors and the ENDIAMA-UEE, to by used as an offer by the three entities, with no commercial purposes."
Xitu conceived these stories while serving twelve years in a Portuguese prison for his political activities supporting independence for Angola. The World of "Mestre" Tamoda is the first of eleven books. Set in the 1940s, the tales in this book are divided into three sections: '"Mestre" Tamoda' introduces us to the prolix Tamoda, who refers to a toothpick as a 'wooden dental probe.' In 'The Village,' Tamoda displays his 'verbal dexterosity' at a funeral and a soccer match. 'The Town,' the best in the collection, centers on Maraja, a black tennis coach, and Arlete Pinto, the daughter of Portuguese parents. Social climbers, the Pintos are scandalized by their daughter's affair with a 'bush black.' Once, on a visit to Johannesburg, they made Arlete stay in the hotel alone because her skin was 'too dark.' Her great-grandmother, they are loathe to admit, was black. To protest the Pintos' racism, the town stages a mock wedding with Arlete and Maraja as bride and groom. The three stories provide a trenchant and comic insight into prerevolutionary Angola.
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Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 1988. Hardcover. First Edition (stated, actually First English-language Edition). Blue leatherette over boards with gold titles to spine and front board. Sewn binding. Sewn-in yellow silk place-marker. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Light remainder mark to top edge. Very slight edge-wear to jacket. No tears. Not from a library. Not clipped. 502 pages.Garden of Repose (憩园, Qì Yuán, 1944) and Bitter Cold Nights (aka Cold Nights, 寒夜, Hán Yè, 1947) are both critiques of China's traditional Confucian family system focusing on emotionally fragile and weak men struggling and failing to deal with family demands and social pressure. Both are set in Sichuan during the Sino-Japanese War (World War II) and both have been adapted into movies at least twice. Garden of Repose is the story of two decadent and decaying families. It follows the live of two characters: a drug addict from a rich family forced to sell his family…
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London: Progress Publishing Co. Ltd. for Unity Theatre Society Ltd., n.d. [1945]. First Edition, First Printing. 12mo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 184 x 121 mm), 11, [1] pages, in pictorial stapled wrappers (soft cover).A short history of the Unity Theatre, a left-wing theatre group founded in London in 1936. With four pages of black-and-white photographs of some of the theatre's productions. The striking cover photograph is from Sean O'Casey's "A Star Turns Red."In 1938, Paul Robeson played the role of a labor organizer in Ben Bengal's strike play, "Plant in the Sun." Moreover, Unity staged the British premieres of plays by Maxim Gorky, Bertolt Brecht, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Branches of Unity Theatre were established around the U.K. OCLC shows only six institutional holdings of this pamphlet: Michigan, Wisconsin, Waterloo, Auckland, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the National Library of Scotland. SCARCE. CONDITION: Mild external wear, some soiling to lower wrapper, staple rusted but internally…
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1970 Guardian first American editions. Credited to author Baik Bong, the books are thought to be collectively written by the Chinese and North Korean governments.First published in the Korean language in 1968 and 1969. The English language translations were first published in 1969 and 1970, in Japan, under the Miraisha imprint.
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