Book jacket image for Our Beautiful Darkness by Ondjaki

Unruly/Enchanted Lion

9781592704101

STARRED REVIEW

Our Beautiful Darkness

A stunning representation of not only pain and conflict, but also the joy that is still able to make its way through, Our Beautiful Darkness is sure to leave readers considering, appreciating and reflecting on the world around them.

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Review of ‘Our Beautiful Darkness’

In award-winning author Ondjaki’s Our Beautiful Darkness, a boy and a girl spend a night together during a power outage in Luanda, Angola, at the height of the Angolan Civil War, which immediately followed Angola’s independence from Portugal in 1975.

With the sting of chaos all around these two unnamed protagonists, and the lingering uncertainty…

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