Ondjaki: Transparent City [2021] paperback MRKTPLCE A Global Threat

A Global Threat

These preoccupations are handled with a simplicity and directness that recalls the work of Frank O'Hara

and bank robberies

from the sensitive young boy at odds with his ex-military father

Ondjaki: Transparent City [2021] paperback MRKTPLCE A Global Threat"A moving mural of lives in the underclass of Luanda." The Guardian 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 youth and searching for his lost son. As his hope drains away and the city outside his doors changes beyond all recognition, Odonato's flesh becomes transparent and his body increasingly weightless.