Angola

The Return
by Dulce Maria Cardoso

Based on her experience as one of os retornados (the returned) prize-winning author Dulce Maria Cardoso brings us the story of Rui, a fifteen-year-old boy, uprooted and disorientated to find himself in a motherland that is not the place of his birth. Living in a hotel amongst dozens of other families, he has to try to rebuild his life while not knowing whether his father is alive or dead.

Translated by Ángel Gurría-Quintana
Maclehose Press, 2016
First published in 2011
ISBN 9780857054364