Suneeta Peres Da Costa: 2 books

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 (saudade means ‘melancholy’ in Portuguese)...

Saudade is the long-awaited follow-up to Peres da Costa's bestselling debut, Homework, which was published by Bloomsbury when she was only 23. We had the same feeling reading Saudade as we did with Wioletta Greg's Swallowing Mercury, with prose that's lyrical in its evocation of childhood and...