Guinea Bissau

The Ultimate Tragedy
by Abdulia Sila

This captivating and funny portrayal of life and love in a village where some of the inhabitants are beginning to question the colonial rule is the first book from Guinea Bissau to be translated into English. Author Abduliai Sila has an engineering degree and works in telecommunications alongside writing his novels.

Translated by Jethro Soutar
Dedalus, 2017
First published in 1995
ISBN 9781910213544