And Suddenly the Flowers Withered and Other Stories
Melo, João Magical, witty and stunning, João Melo's stories bring to mind the work of Borges and Ishiguro and some ineffable otherness that is his alone. Discovering his work could be the highlight of a literary career".Elizabeth McKenzieCatamaran Literary Readerand Chicago Quarterly Review's editor"Melo's stories make the banal and everyday dramas of the folk of Luanda extraordinary, and the extraordinary occurrences mundane. Suffused with irony and wit...