Fiction
I Rock, But I'm Not Made of Stone
by Yara Monteiro
Description
Vitória was born in Angola, but she was raised by her grandparents in Portugal. To become, perhaps, a "good wife". She's marked by a trauma she never overcame: she's never met her mother, an Angolan revolutionary. A few months before her wedding, she flees to Angola. Looking for her mother and her own sexual identity.
She arrives in Luanda at the beginning of the 21st century. She finds it chaotic, filledwith social contrasts, a watercolor where tragedy and comedy dance together. Zacarias Vindu, a general involved in arms trafficking and a poetry lover, and Romena Cambissa, a hurricane-like widow, are, and simultaneously aren't, her main guides around Luanda. But it's in Huambo, in a magical and mystical Angola, that she unearths new clues, when she gets to know Juliana Tijamba, who fought in the civil war alongside her mother, in a meeting that awakens all of Vitória's ghosts. She is then forced to confront her past and to come into herself as an adult. Between satire and tragedy, abandonment and rupture, this is a story of self-discovery. A contemporary, urban, and feminine novel.
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Reviews
"A deep, funny and courageous novel that gives a voiceback to Angolan women, while skillfully reflecting on identity issues, so current and important in the world we live in." | José Eduardo Agualusa.
"A lucid and sensitive portrait of a torn country that expresses, like no other, the pain, the struggles, and the enormous courage of Angolan women." | Catarina Martins.
Author Biography
Yara Monteiro was born in Angola, in the province of Huambo, in 1979.Her family roots are in the Central Plateau of Angola and the North ofPortugal. When she was two years old, she came with her mother and her mother's family to Portugal and she grew up in the outskirts of Lisbon.
As a teenager, encouraged by her Portuguese Language teacher, she actively started writing. She has a degree in Human Resources and she's been working in the area for fifteen years.
In 2015, while living in Brazil, she started a search for inner peace and, in 2016, she embarked on a shamanic voyage in the Amazonian Forest that transmuted her life. She auto-ejected and abandoned thec orporate world completely.
She's married, she lives in Alentejo and she dedicates herself to writing and the plastic arts. She's lived in Luanda, London, Copenhagen, Rio deJaneiro and Athens. She practices yoga and meditation.
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- Publisher Guerra & Paz
- Orginal LanguagePortuguese
- ISBN/Identifier 9789897024238
- Publication Country or regionPortugal
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 15.50 EUR
- Pages240
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2018
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