Splitting through the clear waters beside the rainbow hotel, Daniel Benchimol finds a waterproof mango-yellow camera and uncovers the photographed reveries of a famous Mozambican artist, Moira.
In this exquisite new novel, Agualusa's reader loses all sense of reality.
In The Society of Reluctant Dreamers, Daniel dreams of Julio Cort zar in the form of an ancient giant cedar, his friend Hossi transforming into a dark crow, and most often of the Cotton-Candy-Hair-Woman, Moira, staring right back at him.
After emails back-and-forth, Moira and Daniel meet, and Daniel becomes involved in a mysterious project with a Brazilian neuroscientist, who's creating a machine to photograph people's dreams.
Set against the dense web of Angola's political history, Daniel crosses the hazy border between dream and reality, sleepwalking towards a twisted and entirely strange present.
About the Author Jos Eduardo Agualusa (born 1960) is an Angolan writer.
He studied agronomy and forestry in Lisbon before starting his writing career as a poet.
His novel Creole was awarded the Portuguese Grand Prize for Literature, and he received the U.
's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Book of Chameleons.
In 2017 he and his translator, Daniel Hahn, won the Dublin Literary Award for A General Theory of Oblivion.
About the translator: Daniel Hahn is the author of several works of non-fiction, including the history book The Tower Menagerie.
He is the editor of The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature and one of the editors of The Ultimate Book Guide, a series of reading guides for children and teenagers - the first volume of which won the Blue Peter Book Award.
His translation of The Book of Chameleons by Jos Eduardo Agualusa won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007.
He has also translated the work of Jos Lu s Peixoto, Philippe Claudel, Mar a Due as, Jos Saramago, Eduardo Halfon, Gon alo M.
Tavares, and others.
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Archipelago Books The society of reluctant dreamers, paperback/jose eduardo agualusa
