This is a difficult book - not to read - the translation and the story flowed easily for all the desolate power of its fiction but to attempt to assimilate - there are more questions than answers here and I've lost countless hrs since reading this in an attempt to learn more of Annobón / pagalu.

This story took me right on to reading human rights reports and country histories, to trying to piece them together w my own knowledge of today into a sort of reader's next step after.

- the author, with the voice of a child, the distance of adulthood and new freedoms evokes a powerful need to know