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Niels Lyhne by Gabriel García Márquez
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
Honorable Mention: The Book of Chameleons , The Dead Father, Demons, The Man Without Qualities, On the Edge of Reason, Raintree County, The Shipyard, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, ...
82. The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
The narrator, a chameleon, allow us to witness the life of
a single middle aged man in whose house he lives, and whom earns his living by making up life stories to sell to those who need a new past. We are introduced to several ...
... Umbria was my favourite. We stayed in a beautiful home in the country, in the converted barns. Divine.
I also loved The Book of Chameleons . Totally agree that the Guernsey Pie book was mediocre - I could not believe all the hype - could also definitely tell when the second writer moved ...
My library has some of Saramago's work, but I think I'm going to "cheat" and read something from Mozambique - either Book of Chameleons (which I read a chapter from recently) or something by Mia Couto.
... this year - Gods and Soldiers is a Penguin anthology and is mostly excerpts from longer works. (I may try to get hold of The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa and use it for September's Portugal reads.)
And I also enjoyed Say you're one of them by Uwem Akpan, a collection ...
... Anam 08/15/09
263. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay 08/15/09
264. The Egyptian by Mika Waltari 08/18/09
265. The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa 08/18/09
FILM: Casque d'or (1952); The Face of Another (1966); Home Sweet Home (1982)
264. The Egyptian by Mika Waltari 08/18/09
265. The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa 08/18/09
... of a family from Sri Linka and the devastating, inevitable effect of the civil war. Good but not excellent. 3 stars.
34. The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa. Fantastic, beautifully written book about a very intelligent chameleon and his owner. I won't tell you any more. Really ...
charbutton, your thoughts about why The Book of Chameleons is an African story are very interesting; when I read it, I was a little put off by the author's being the son of Portuguese colonizers and wasn't sure how to focus on what was "African" about the novel, even though the author, in an ...
The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa
I purchased this after seeing its translator, Daniel Hahn, speaking at a London Review of Books event. Hahn seemed very nice, the ...
The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa
I purchased this after seeing its translator, Daniel Hahn, speaking at a London Review of Books event. Hahn seemed very ...
#132, charbutton, I read The Book of Chameleons earlier this year and there was an interesting essay/conversation with the translator in it (I don't have the book in front of me so I can't remember which it was). I'll be interested in what you think of the book.
... Quiet American by Graham Greene {3/13} {+1}
AFRICA : 12
Algeria: The Stranger by Albert Camus {8/4}
Angola: The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa {8/18}
Botswana - The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith {7/22}
Congo-Kinshasa - The Heart of Dark ...
...and who can pass up the chance of getting a free book??
I noticed that you mention The Book of Chameleons in your first post. I've just ordered it after seeing Agualusa's translator, Daniel Hahn, speak at an event recently. It was really interesting to hear about the translation process and ...
... vin
Der Tod des Vergil by Hermann Broch
My Fifteen Minutes by Sybil Jason
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
East into Upper East by Ruth Prawer Jhabv ...
Some more travels.
I visited Angola in The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa. Not sure I really learnt much about the country from this book as it was such a strange story. Parts of it touch upon colonialism and an obsession with ancestry places a large part in the book.
Ne ...
... too neatly wrapped up, but it worked well with the rest of the book. Certainly someone I'll consider reading again.
Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
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I have been curious about The Book of Chameleons myself. It is nice to know that is a readable book in spite of the strange narrator, et al.
... target="_blank"> The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
I picked this up in a charity shop, having heard about it on this site. I was drawn to it because of its unusual narrator - ...
... by Karel Capek
5: Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
6: Tangier Diary by Paul Bowles
7: The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
8: The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
9: The Bad Girl: a Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa
10: The Gathering by Anne Enright
11: If on a winter's night a ...
... 18 by Dag Solstad
New York Review Books -- The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor von Rezzori
Simon & Schuster -- The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Augalusa
Serpent's Tail -- Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto
I listed six to get a mixture of newish titles (the Solstad, A ...
>37 - that's what Daniel Hahn (trs. The Book of Chameleons ) recently said in an interview - building up the % of books sold is even important than the % of books published.
Picador
Bloomsbury (x2)
New York Review
Harvill
I think the smaller imprints are the future of literature in ...
... by Karel Capek
5: Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
6: Tangier Diary by Paul Bowles
7: The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
8: The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
9: The Bad Girl: a Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa
10: The Gathering by Anne Enright
... by Karel Capek
5: Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
6: Tangier Diary by Paul Bowles
7: The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
8: The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
9: The Bad Girl: a Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa
... by Karel Capek
5: Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
6: Tangier Diary by Paul Bowles
7: The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
8: The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
Several other books are in progress, and yet another lost; yet however I look at it, I'm behind, I'm behind ... I'm even ...
... have a lot to choose from this month.
2666 by Roberto Bolano
The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor von Rezzori
The Book of the Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
The book I'm still reading will be a best for next month:
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression ...
Since I last posted on the "Week of" threads, I've read Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto, The Book of the Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa, The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor von Rezzori, and A Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken Kalfus, and I'm still working my way ...
... :)
I appear to have completely ignored my previous answer to this question! I still might try to get round to The Book of Chameleons by the end of the month, although life has been disappointingly getting in the way of reading far too much this month!
I've left contemporary Mozambique (Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto) and Angola (The Book of the Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa) and am in Romania between the world wars with young Gregor von Rezzori and his family in The Snows of Yesteryear, and also in the US in the Depression ...
#68 re The Book of Chameleons - a lot of comments in the reviews suggested the title was mislabeled because a chameleon is not a gecko!
I thought the title was extremely apt - considering the magic realism was based around shifting, invented and realized identity changes. I decided in the end, ...
Now that I've read The Book of the Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa, which is said to be partly a tribute to Borges, I'm interested in reading some Borges. Can anyone recommend a good book to start with?
... Mozambicans, but he relies so heavily on magical realism that I felt I was really missing most of the symbolism.
#11 The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
An entertaining, but deep book, narrated by a gecko who used to be a human that plays with idea of identity. Like Cou ...
... Mozambicans, but he relies so heavily on magical realism that I felt I was really missing most of the symbolism.
#11 The Book of Chameleons > by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
An entertaining, but deep book, narrated by a gecko who used to be a human that plays with idea of identity. Like Co ...
The issue raised for me by both Sleepwalking Land and The Book of Chameleons is the issue of books written by Africans of European descent and whether this is "truly" African literature. (Previously discussed above in 14 and 16) I bring this up especially because I recently read Ngugi wa Thio ...
... war.
2. Name the book and the author. Tell us something (brief) about the author. What does the book's title mean?
The Book of the Chameleons is by Jose Eduardo Agualusa who, like Mia Couto in the previous post is the son of Portuguese colonists. The book title refers both to ...
I've now read Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto and The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eudardo Agalusa. I'll try to answer the questions for Sleepwalking Land in this post, The book of Chameleons in the next and then some general thoughts about both in a third.
1. Name your country and ...
... soon as you read it. Don't go back and alter your list before answering this question!! :)
I'm going to try to read The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa by the end of the month, which won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007. I've got Cry, the Beloved Country ...
... delivery, at which point I'll choose between two books recommended here on LT, Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto and The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agalusa. I also have A Grain of Wheat on the pile, but I've read so many books by Ngugi wa Thiong'o that I feel I should ...
I just picked up The Book of Chameleons to read as one of the Africa books for Reading Globally in February, so I'm glad to hear that you recommend it.
The Shakespeare on Toast sounds perfect for someone such as myself who has enjoyed seeing Shakespeare in the theater, but who has had great ...
kiwidoc, glad u liked The Book of Chameleons , i too enjoyed the "twists and bends" and its "oddness."
>130, yes he is Angolan with Portuguese ancestry
... one!!!
anita - I agree, although ultimately it was his intelligence that pulled him out of the quagmire.
11. The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa
kidzdoc in Club Read 2009 : Kidzdoc's 2009 Goals (Jan 25, 2009, 8:40am)
... response to your thread, which probably helps explain why I had forgotten about it.
From the current list I've read The Book of Chameleons , 2666, Senselessness, Camera , and Death With Interruptions. I still haven't read Yalo yet, and I bought the novella The Lemoine Affai ...
... by Karleen Koen
9. Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
VII. Books in Translation 4/9
1. The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
2. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
4.
... - Photo Shop Murder {8/15}
42. BANGLADESH - A Golden Age {8/15}
43. FINLAND - The Egyptian {8/18}
44. ANGOLA - The Book of Chameleons {8/18}
45. ZIMBABWE - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight {8/21}
46. SUDAN - Season of Migration to the North {8/23}
47. COLOMBIA - Love in ...
From the 2008 list, I've read The Book of Chameleons , Senselessness, Death with Interruptions, and Camera . I'll finish 2666 tonight or tomorrow, and Yalo is high on Mount TBR.
Of the 2007 books, I've read The Savage Detectives (stopped halfway through) and African Psycho, ...
... by Stefan Zweig
13. A Romance on Three Legs by Katie Hafner
12. Shakespeare on Toast by Ben Crystal
11. The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduard Agualusa
10. The Grass Arena by john Healy
09. Selkirk's Island by Diana Souhami
08. Inventing Japan by Ian Buruma
07. Th ...
The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa - a delightful poetic book, and told by a witty, though rather unusual narrator, a gecko.
Set in Angola just after the civil war, the story unfolds in vignettes, seemingly unrelated at first -- recollections of his life now as a gecko and of ...
... and madness of her language, and Jose Eduardo Agualusa (although to be fair, I have only read one of his books so far, The Book of Chameleons - but it was one of my top reads.
My other most memorable reads of the year have been Teta, Mother and Me, a memoir and family history, and Nig ...
I think I'll start with The Book of Chameleons and The Bus We Loved. But who knows? Hard to decide in advance...
91. The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa
92. Granta 21Storyteller
mini-reviews for books 88-92 to follow...
A gecko! In The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa, a gecko is a witness to events that happen within the four walls of a certain house in Angola.
... book pages as well, especially Nicholas Lezard's paperback choice (he brought me to The Book Of Chameleons , one of my favourite reads of the year, and one of my current reads Irrationality, which is shaping up to be very good).
... ooks
5 - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (6 minus one UN-nudge)
3 - The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
3 - The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa
2 - The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
2 - Tomorrow by Graham Swift
-1 - Frida's Bed by Sl ...
I am very excited to see The Book Of Chameleons on a to-be-nudged pile, as it's the book that I am currently running around pressing on all my friends (who, I imagine, nod gently, take the book from me, and add it to the pile at the back of the cupboard). It's fantastic - beautifully written, ...
... Franz Kafka (Czech Republic)
Embers – Sandor Marai (Hungary)
Auto-Da-Fé – Elias Canetti (Bulgaria)
The Book of Chameleons – Eduardo Agualusa (Portugal)
The Theory of Clouds – Stéphane Audeguy (France)
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr – E.T.A ...
... me get really excited about my books. If only I had a time-turner like Hermione Granger...
I myself just discovered The Book of Chameleons about 10 days ago and have also noticed that it's been getting great press and word-of-mouth. More nudges for Cloud Atlas from torontoc and Bookslot ...
... that you haven't ever heard of, let alone read. I've posted my nudges earlier on in this thread but now I'm intrigued by The Book of Chameleons which I see won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007. There are some admiring reviews for it in LT and so there goes one more book onto my ...
... read and The Winter Queen, which I just purchased and have not read. I haven't read any Gish Jen, so she's a possibility. The Book of Chameleons sounds like the most intriguing of your suggestions.
>15 Cariola, wow what a list. I'm feeling quite nudged. Do you have any other titles you ...
Hmm... lots of books to add to the wishlist here! I would highly recommend The Book Of Chameleons by Jose Agualusa. You might also be interested in Typical American by Gish Jen - or anything by Jane Stevenson.
... Assassination: Who Killed Indira Gandhi? by Tariq Ali, and Missing Person by Patrick Modiano. I should finish The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa later today. After that I'll probably start Children of Heroes by Lyonel Trouillot, The Aftermath of War by Je ...
...
"Camera" by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau
Children of Heroes by Lyonel Trouillot
The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa
... by J M Ledgard
4. Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre
5. The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
6 The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
7. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muri ...
That gives me a good opportunity ... I recently read The Book Of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa and thought of recommending it to you as an Angola book, but I saw that you already had one. It's quite an unusual read - narrated by a gecko who lives on the wall of a house - but I thought ...
... read in the last three months! More or less in order:
1. Teta, Mother and Me by Jean Said Makdisi (memoir)
2. The Book Of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
3. On Trying To Keep Still by Jenny Diski
4. Night and the City by Gerald Kersh
5. Little Big Man by T ...
60. The Book Of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa. Fantastic read - I'd highly recommend it. Reviewed .
5. Books from small presses
1. The Calligrapher's Night *as challenge 4
2. The Book Of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa - read in March - highly recommended (see review ).
3. Night And The City by Gerald Kersh - read in Jan - ...
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The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa
I purchased this after seeing its translator, Daniel Hahn, speaking at a London Review of Books event. Hahn seemed very nice, the ...
