About the Author

José Eduardo Agualusa is one of the leading voices in Angola and the Portuguese language today. Also available in English are Creole, winner of the Portuguese Grand Prize for Literature; The Book of Chameleons, which won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007; A General Theory of Oblivion, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize and won the International Dublin Literary Award; The Society of Reluctant Dreamers; My Father’s Wives; and Rainy Season. In 2019, Agualusa was awarded the most important literary prize in Angola, the Angolan National Prize for Culture and Arts. His novel Os Vivos e os Outros, also forthcoming from Archipelago, won the 2021 Portuguese PEN Prize.

Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, and translator. He is the author of several works of non-fiction, including the history book The Tower Menagerie. He is the editor of The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature and one of the editors of The Ultimate Book Guide, a series of reading guides for children and teenagers. His translations (from Portuguese, Spanish, and French) include fiction from Africa, Europe, and Latin America.