by Pepetela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722060158
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«Se o Passado Não Tivesse Asas» is the novel by Angolan writer Pepetela, published by Leya in paperback, in Portuguese.
The novel interweaves the stories of two women: Himba, a girl who gets separated from her family and arrives in Lunda with Kassule, a boy wounded by a mine; and Sofia, who runs a restaurant in Luanda while her ambition and that of her brother Diego, a street artist, grow. The plot spans twenty years of Angola's recent history, between war and survival.
Published in 2016, the work belongs to contemporary Angolan narrative and is set within fiction and Portuguese literature.
For readers of contemporary narrative interested in African literature and in the traces of war in everyday life.
Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos is an Angolan writer of fiction. He writes under the name Pepetela.
