A General Theory of Oblivion (Paperback)

from VioletBramble

The story of a woman, Ludo, who survives 28 years alone in an apartment during the Angolan civi war. Ludo has agoraphobia. When her sister, Odette , marries Orlando they both move with him from Portugal to Angola. There is a revolution brewing in Angola. Also, Orlando is involved in some bad busi...

from Othemts

This book tells the story of Ludo, a Portuguese woman living in the Angolan capital of Luanda. When a revolution achieves independence for Angola in 1975, Ludo does not join the crowd of colonizers returning to Portugal, but instead bricks herself into a penthouse apartment, surviving on self-gro...

from aileverte

What first caught my attention was the title: I imagined a lot of different things that it could conceal. The book turned out to be none of these. "A General Theory of Oblivion" is a narrative web which seems to have caught fragments of stories, scraps of diaries, poems, events far and near: I co...

from EBT1002

"God weighs souls on a pair of scales. In one of the dishes is the soul, and in the other, the tears of those who weep for it. If nobody cries, the soul goes down to hell. If there are enough tears, and they are sufficiently heartfelt, it rises up to heaven. Ludo believed this. Or wanted to belie...

from BrandieC

There appears to be some question about whether José Eduardo Agualusa's A General Theory of Oblivion is based on real events in the life of Ludovica Fernandes Mano, a Portuguese woman who immigrated to Luanda not long before the Angolan War for Independence reached there in 1975. In a Foreword an...