Author: VIEIRA, JOSE LUANDINO (TRANSLATED BY RICHARD ZENITH)
Title: Loves of Joao Vencio
Description: San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0151463905. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Vieira was jailed briefly in 1959 for pro-independence activism. In 1961, while travelling through Portugal with his wife and four-month-old son to a training course in London organized by his employer, the American company EIMCO, Vieira was arrested and transported to Luanda, where he was imprisoned in the São Paulo prison until 1964. In 1964, Vieira, Jacinto and Cardoso were transferred by ship to the concentration camp in Tarrafal, Cabo Verde. Vieira wrote almost all of his fiction in Tarrafal, beginning to publish it—not necessarily in the order in which it was written. --having smuggled his manuscripts out of the camp, after the 25 April 1974 military coup in Portugal. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0151463905 Modern Fiction First Edition Jose Luandino Vieira Richard Zenith Portugal
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Title: Loves of Joao Vencio
Description: San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0151463905. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Vieira was jailed briefly in 1959 for pro-independence activism. In 1961, while travelling through Portugal with his wife and four-month-old son to a training course in London organized by his employer, the American company EIMCO, Vieira was arrested and transported to Luanda, where he was imprisoned in the São Paulo prison until 1964. In 1964, Vieira, Jacinto and Cardoso were transferred by ship to the concentration camp in Tarrafal, Cabo Verde. Vieira wrote almost all of his fiction in Tarrafal, beginning to publish it—not necessarily in the order in which it was written. --having smuggled his manuscripts out of the camp, after the 25 April 1974 military coup in Portugal. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0151463905 Modern Fiction First Edition Jose Luandino Vieira Richard Zenith Portugal
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 43381
- Book number: 43381
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