num_pages: 245
description: On the eve of Angolan independence an agoraphobic woman named Ludo bricks herself into her apartment for 30 years living off vegetables and the pigeons she lures in with diamonds burning her furniture and books to stay alive and writing her story on the apartments walls.Almost as if were eavesdropping the history of Angola unfolds through the stories of those she sees from her window. As the country goes through various political upheavals from colony to socialist republic to civil war to peace and capitalism the world outside seeps into Ludos life through snippets on the radio voices from next door glimpses of someone peeing on a balcony or a man fleeing his pursuers.A General Theory of Oblivion is a perfectly crafted wild patchwork of a novel playing on a love of storytelling and fable.
language: English
title: A General Theory of Oblivion
publisher: Harvill Secker