Hello,

I recently joined the All Books Africa Group. As a publisher who has just released a novel about the Angolan Civil War, I thought it might be worth bringing to your attention. Ondjaki's Good morning Comrades has just been released (indeed, i'm not sure amazon has changed it status yet). Ondjaki is a Lusophone writer of international reputation, and our edition of Good morning Comrades introduces him to an English speaking audience for the first time. It will not be the last: Aflame Books in the UK is set to release his fable The Whistler, and I know New Directions is also looking at publishing something by him soon. We expect he will become one of the most celebrated African novelists of his generation.

Anyway, if you would like further information on Comrades, you can chcekc out our website at www.biblioasis.com. It is also available online on amazon and elsewhere, and available through any good bookstore.

Thansk for your time, and I do hope that this was not too intrusive. (We're a small literary press based in Canada, and we're just trying to do whatever we can to let potential readers know about the book.

Best wishes,

Dan Wells

posted by biblioasis at 9:59 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008

I live in South Africa and notice "south African "authors " in your list. Are you an ex-South African" or just interest in Africa?
Only an ex- S.A. would read about Biko!

posted by soensannie at 1:50 pm (EST) on Jan 14, 2008

Oooh, that new system is lame! The only reason I'm using PBS these days is for the FIFO. *Sigh*

posted by valkylee at 12:55 pm (EST) on Dec 12, 2007

Hi!
IN a discussion over in the Bookmooch group you mentioned

"I prefer PBS because of its functionality and because I get more books via the FIFO system there (although that impending ranking wishlist has me bummin.') Still, mooching is fun."

I hadn't heard about this impending ranking wishlist? What's that?

posted by valkylee at 3:26 pm (EST) on Dec 9, 2007