"Let us swear while we may, for in Heaven it will not be allowed."
Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about.
From Biblioasis | Transparent City by Ondjaki, translated from the Portuguese by Stephen Henighan | Fiction | 324 pages | ISBN 978-1771961431 | US$15.95
What the publisher says: “In a crumbling apartment block in Luanda, Angola, impoverished families hoard memories to survive a corrupt regime. Odonato—nostalgic for the days...
It has been said that a monkey, randomly typing away on a typewriter (in the days when typewriters replaced the pen or plume as the preferred instrument of writing) could re-create Shakespeare-- but only if it lived long enough (this is known as the infinite monkey theorem).