Great African Reads discussion

Proposta:
- um livro a cada trimestre;
- autores africanos, independentemente de raça ou país;
- originais em português ou traduções para o português;
- ficções, não-ficções, ou acadêmicos.
Sugira livros que preencham esses critérios (para o trimestre abril-maio-junho), ou sugira mudanças de critérios, postando um comentário aqui neste tópico.
Você pode também simplesmente dizer que apoia uma nominação.

Proposal:
- one book every three months;
- african authors, independently of race or country;
- originals in Portuguese or Portuguese translations;
- fiction, nonfiction, or academic.
Nominate books that fulfill these criteria (for the April/May/June trimester) or suggest changes to the proposal, by posting comments in this topic.
You can also second nominations.

I like all your proposals. As it was pointed out in the other thread there are helas not too many books by African authors writing in Portuguese but I would propose That Hair by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida. She is from Angola and the novel is partly autobiographic. There are also other titles by her which sound interesting, above all Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso but unfortunately it has not yet been translated...

Great, Orgeluse. Thank you. I will edit my post to say "please, nominate".

Hi, Orgeluse.
You mentioned two books in your post and they showed on the side of the screen as "books mentioned in this topic". How do you do that? How do you link a book, as opposed to just typing a title? I appreciate if you can help me. I am new to Goodreads.
I tried sending this as an individual message but it didn't work.
Ana Lúcia

Ana Lúcia wrote: "Hi, Orgeluse.
You mentioned two books in your post and they showed on the side of the screen as "books mentioned in this topic". How do you do that? How do you link a book, as opposed to just typin..."

Hi Ana Lucia,
it is quite easy if you know where to click :))
If you write a comment and want to link books and / or authors you have to click on "add book/author" that you will find at the top of the box you are writing in. In the window that opens up, you can search the book by title or you can also search the author. Once you have found the title / author you can press add and the link is inserted into your comment.
Sometimes if the title of the book is similar to other titles, it is advisable to search for the author first and then switch to book.

As for sending individual messages to other members here on GR: I remember having read somewhere that you can only send private messages to members you are friends with to prevent people from receiving strange messages from complete strangers.
I hope I could be of help! Looking forward to reading Portuguese titles!

Wow, nice! Thank you for the walkthrough.
I will test it now with Ilha de Nome Santo , a book by Francisco José Tenreiro from São Tomé e Príncipe.
It worked! Very helpful feature. I had not noticed it. You are right: it is easy if you know where to click. :)
Thank you also for the info about messaging. That makes sense.

On another topic Luisa suggested Paulina Chiziane.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Estes são alguns livros que eu pretendo ler e que têm tradução para o inglês:
A Vida Verdadeira de Domingos Xavier
Teoria Geral do Esquecimento
Os Transparentes

The Real Life of Domingos Xavier
A General Theory of Oblivion
Transparent City

Transparent City has been on my list for a while. I'll be happy to join the discussion and contribute in English.

Carolien wrote: "Transparent City has been on my list for a while. I'll be happy to join the discussion and contribute in English."
Great, Carolien!

I just voted on the poll, it was a hard choice to make.
I already read Os Transparentes when it was a group read in Nov-Dec 2019 (see the thread here and don't hesitate to post comments) and I did enjoy it.

Finally I voted for Teoria Geral do Esquecimento, as the only other book I read by José Eduardo Agualusa (O Vendedor de Passados, another past group read) was sublime!

Wim wrote: "I just voted on the poll, it was a heard choice to make..."
Thanks, Wim!
Two more days to vote, pessoal!