Member: teaperson

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 10:01 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008

It's me again.

In your review of "Adjusting Sights", you said "This was the first book I can remember reading that dealt with the experience of warfare in Israel. Is that type of Israeli literature just not written or just not translated?"

I'm about 1/3 of the way through a new book by Israeli author Ron Leshem about Israeli soliders stationed at an outpost in Lebanon. This book won the Israeli Sapir Prize for Literature. It's really good and may be what you are hoping to read. The book is called [Beaufort]. At first, I thought the book was going to be about North or South Carolina, but then, when I thumbed through it, it mentioned the Israeli town of Qiryat Shemona within the first few pages!

posted by SqueakyChu at 9:18 am (EST) on Jan 28, 2008

Oh it will only get better! I'm not nearly done. So keep checking back.

posted by kirianne at 5:02 pm (EST) on Jul 23, 2007

Hi Joel - good to "see" you!

posted by candyschwartz at 10:41 am (EST) on Oct 30, 2006

Wasn't Adjusting Sights simply a great book?!

I bought a copy yesterday (having already read it before as a library book) and gave it to my best friend today (which is why it's not listed in my library any more). She'll be giving it to her father in New York after she reads it.

I love reading Israeli novels. My newest discovery has been novels by Sayed Kashua who's an Israeli Arab (and a journalist for the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz). Try to get hold of this author's two novels, the first is Dancing Arabs and the second is Let It Be Morning. After you've read those two, I'll try to recommend something else. Enjoy!

posted by SqueakyChu at 10:48 pm (EST) on Sep 30, 2006

Yes, I am.

posted by teaperson at 12:12 pm (EST) on Nov 19, 2005

Just curious: are you indeed fond of tea?

I saw your username among the new additions to the Frappr map - and wondered.

(The query of an ardent tea-lover.)

posted by Eurydice at 5:32 am (EST) on Nov 16, 2005