by Petina Gappah, Carlos Mayor Ortega · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439738046
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«De la oscuridad, una luz resplandeciente» is the historical novel by Petina Gappah, published by Literatura Random House in paperback (320 pages).
After the death of Dr Livingstone, his servants carry his body and writings on a journey of fifteen hundred miles through nineteenth-century Africa. Halima, the cook, and Jacob Wainwright, a freed slave, narrate the journey: a portrait of colonial hypocrisy that also celebrates loyalty and resistance.
Published in 2021 by Literatura Random House, the Spanish edition features a translation by Carlos Mayor Ortega.
A read for those seeking historical and adventure fiction with a critical view of colonialism and slavery.
Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by Brittle Paper. In 2017 she had a DAAD Artist-in-Residence fellowship in Berlin.
