TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peres da Costa,Suneeta
TI  - Saudade
SN  - 9781925336634
U1  - 823.92 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Artarmon, New South Wales
PB  - Giramondo
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Homesickness
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "A coming-of-age story set in Angola in the period leading up to the colony's independence, Saudade focuses on a Goan immigrant family caught between complicity in Portuguese rule, and their dependence on the Angolans who are their servants. The title speaks to the melancholy longing for homeland that haunts the characters, and especially the young girl who is the book's protagonist and narrator. Suneeta Peres da Costa's novella captures with intense lyricism the difficult relationship between the girl and her mother, and the ways in which their intimate world is shaken by domestic violence, the legacies of slavery and the end of empire. Her intellectual awakening unfolds into a growing awareness of the lies of colonialism, and the violent political ruptures that ultimately lead to her father's death, and their exile."--Back cover
ER  -