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Saudade has been the underdog making it to the Semifinals. This little gem has won from The Testaments and Fleishman is in Trouble. Today it is up against Lost Children Archive. I think it‘s about time Saudade steps aside for my personal favorite today 😀

Finished my March #bookspin early this morning. I received this novel through my subscription to Transit Books. There‘s an emotional distance to the novel. The narrator expresses this strange sense of timelessness as she grows up in pre-independent Angola. Her notion of home is complicated by her status as an Indian immigrant living in Portuguese-controlled Angola. There‘s a lot of ideas in this little novel. 🇦🇴 🇵🇹 🇮🇳

#TOB2020 Anyone who read my review this weekend won‘t be surprised that I wholeheartedly hope that The Testaments won‘t survive the first round. And I do trust the judges so I‘m quite positive that the lovely Saudade will be today‘s winner. Any thoughts?

I finally got my hands on Suneeta Peres da Costa's Saudade, one of the finalists in the Tournament of Books. At only 120 pages, it's a tight, powerful novel focusing on life in 1960s Angola. I had to do some research as I read, as the context here is important: The family at the center of the narrative is from Goa, an Indian state, and they are caught up in the Portuguese rule over Angola. ⬇️

1️⃣ Of course! An interesting cover can make me pick up a book I normally would not otherwise.
2️⃣ The tagged book was for the #tob2020 & the only one I could not get through the library.
3️⃣ I still get physical newspaper delivered every morning...old fashioned, I know!
4️⃣ Snooze! I am not a morning person.
5️⃣ @nanuska_153 @MySharonaK

Thanks for the tag @readordierachel 😀 #friyayintro

I seem to be in the minority here, but I really didn‘t connect with this #novella from the #ToB shortlist. I honestly got bored and was skimming by the end. I probably should have read this on my kindle instead of in print so that I could look up the historical people, events, and places mentioned, but I just couldn‘t be bothered to get up and google them. Interesting time period and story, but the execution wasn‘t for me.

Saudade is a feeling of loss, or not belonging, and this is well captured by the narrator of this novella, which is on the Tournament of Books shortlist. It is set in 1960s pre-independence Angola, and the narrator and her family are Goan, although she has never lived anywhere but Africa. They are being pushed out even as they cling to the power that comes from being the self-imposed merchant middle class. ⤵️

Coinky-dink! When a poem references something that is unconnected officially with another book you are about to read! #poetry #tob #tob2020

Barbara noticed I was having trouble finding this book from the #tob2020 shortlist. So all the way from Amsterdam comes a package filled with sweet things. Thank you so much!! @BarbaraBB