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Good Morning Comrades
Ondjaki
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Biblioasis
, 2008
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / War & Military
Fiction / Coming of Age
Fiction / Cultural Heritage
ISBN
1897231407
9781897231401
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GvseAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Luanda, Angola, 1990. Ndalu is a normal twelve-year old boy in an extraordinary time and place. Like his friends, he enjoys laughing at his teachers, avoiding homework and telling tall tales. But Ndalu's teachers are Cuban, his homework assignments include writing essays on the role of the workers and peasants, and the tall tales he and his friends tell are about a criminal gang called Empty Crate which specializes in attacking schools. Ndalu is mystified by the family servant, Comrade Antonio, who thinks that Angola worked better when it was a colony of Portugal, and by his Aunt Dada, who lives in Portugal and doesn't know what a ration card is. In a charming voice that is completely original,
Good Morning Comrades
tells the story of a group of friends who create a perfect childhood in a revolutionary socialist country fighting a bitter war. But the world is changing around these children, and like all childhood's Ndalu's cannot last. An internationally acclaimed novel, already published in half a dozen countries,
Good Morning Comrades
is an unforgettable work of fiction by one of Africa's most exciting young writers.