Ondjaki

A great rhinoceros, plagued with sorrow, learns a lesson from the sun about the secret to happiness.In the ancient forest, a beautiful rhinoceros was wondering why he felt sadness in his heart, and asked for help.What follows is an enchanting fable about the importance of kindness and empathy, vividly illustrated by Catalina Vásquez and movingly penned by the award-winning writer...

A great rhinoceros, plagued with sorrow, learns a lesson from the sun about the secret to happiness.In the ancient forest, a beautiful rhinoceros was wondering why he felt sadness in his heart, and asked for help.What follows is an enchanting fable about the importance of kindness and empathy, vividly illustrated by Catalina Vásquez and movingly penned by the award-winning writer...

A blackout leads two teens to discover the intimacy and vulnerability that can only be shared in darkness in Our Beautiful Darkness, a fully illustrated YA novella from celebrated Angolan author Ondjaki and illustrator António Jorge Gonçalves. Translated from Portuguese by Lyn Miller-Lachmann. The light goes out suddenly. In this absence of light, a pair of teenagers bare their souls....

'Ondjaki is experimentally bold, and his prose shifts through a kaleidoscope of registers, from the poetic to the political, the erotic to the absurd.' - TLS In a crumbling apartment block in the Angolan city of Luanda, families work, laugh, scheme, and get by. In the middle of it all is the melancholic Odonato, nostalgic for the country of his...