Welcome to Litsy!

#readaroundtheworld An interesting although somewhat uneven collage of a young woman ostracized from her village, a chef attempting to break the power of the white colonial administrators and a teacher. Their stories are told with separate focus but they do overlap. The book illuminates the individual struggles under colonial powers when existing cultures are fragmented. Rather a modern telling.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/39c6ae20-ffb5-11e8-ac00-57a2a8...

I‘m not too sure if that link is going to work: if not, try Googling the Bookseller of Bissau. This is a quite fascinating FT article about the only bookshop in #GuineaBissau and the (lack of) publishing industry there.

And no, of course I haven‘t read the San Marino book yet! #readaroundtheworld

Picture has no relevance to anything 😁

I flew through this book, but not because I liked it. This is a painful read. I wanted to take Ndani‘s face between my hands and tell her not all whites are horrible...that not all Christians act like Dona Deolinda. I got a bit lost in the middle of the book, but eventually figured out what was happening. Not sure if it was me or the translation. Probably me. Part of my #Passportreading2018 challenge. #GuineaBissau

This passage just makes me so mad on so many levels! 😡😡😡

Starting this for #Passportreading - I don‘t think this is y type of story, but I am trying to expand my wheelhouse.

I'm looking forward to these two books for #PassportReading. The one on the left is set in Guinea and the tagged book is set in Guinea-Bissau. Both sound heart-rending.