{"product_id":"the-joyful-song-of-the-partridge-paperback","title":"The Joyful Song of the Partridge - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaulina Chiziane\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid Brookshaw\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA roiling chronicle of motherhood and colonization from a writer who \"alternates between a dramatic, high-octane style and a terse and humorous frankness\" (Sheila Heti) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRecipient of the 2021 Camões Prize, the most important award for literature in the Portuguese language \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA potent whirl of history, mythology, and grapevine chatter, \u003ci\u003eThe Joyful Song of the Partridge\u003c\/i\u003e absorbs readers into its many hiding places and along the wandering paths of its principal characters, whose stark words will stay with you long after the journey is done. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo one knows where Maria des Dores came from. Did she ride in on the armored spines of crocodiles, was she carried many miles in the jaws of fish? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe only clear fact is that she is here, sitting naked in the river bordering a town where nothing ever happens. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe townspeople murmur restlessly that she is possessed by perverse impulses. They interpret her arrival as an omen of crop failure or, in more hopeful tones, a sign that womankind will soon seize power from the greedy hands of men. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs \u003ci\u003eThe Joyful Song of the Partridge\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds, Paulina Chiziane spirals back in time to Maria's true origins: the days of Maria's mother and father when the pressure to assimilate in Portuguese-controlled Mozambique formed a distorting bond on the lives of black Mozambicans.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaulina Chiziane\u003c\/b\u003e, born in 1955, studied Linguistics in Maputo and published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eBalada de Amor ao Vento\u003c\/i\u003e, after Mozambique gained independence in 1990. It was the first novel published by a Mozambican woman. Chiziane prefers to consider herself a storyteller rather than a novelist, and bases her work on the rich heritage of the oral tradition. In 2021, she won the Camões Prize, the world's most important distinction in the Portuguese language. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslator\u003cb\u003e David Brookshaw\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor emeritus at the University of Bristol, England. He has published widely in the field of Brazilian and Lusophone postcolonial studies, and has also translated the work of various authors from Portuguese, including Mia Couto's \u003ci\u003eConfession of the Lioness\u003c\/i\u003e and Onésimo Almeida's \u003ci\u003eTales from the Tenth Island\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also compiled an anthology of stories by the Portuguese writer José Rodrigues Miguéis, \u003ci\u003eThe Polyhedric Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 6.4 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 28, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748325589280,"sku":"9781953861689","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/dfa0e29b5918bdf02c12a656f7a1bcf6.webp?v=1779908154","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-joyful-song-of-the-partridge-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}