De Handelaar In Verledens by José Eduardo Agualusa

In postcolonial Luanda, a resourceful man makes his living by inventing and selling convincing personal histories to clients who wish to erase, reinvent or conceal their pasts; when a new commission draws him into a fraught web of family secrets, political violence and longing, his work forces a meditation on memory, identity and the porous border between truth and invention as personal and national histories collide.

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