{"product_id":"ngungas-adventures-a-story-of-angola","title":"NGUNGA'S ADVENTURES, a story of Angola","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e84pp., paperback, \u003c\/em\u003eNew Edition, Mangalani Publishing, Makhado, (1988) 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781775672494\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published by Young World Books in 1988. Translated from the Portuguese by Chris Searle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis novel, Pepetela's first, about \u003cspan\u003ea young MPLA guerrilla who longs to learn to read and write, was written and published while he was fighting the colonial government on the Eastern Front in Angola.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePepetela\u003c\/strong\u003e is the pen name for the Angolan novelist and scholar \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArtur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos (b. 1941). He has written over 20 books, some of which have been translated into English. These include the novels \u003ci\u003eMayombe: A novel of the Angolan struggle; Yaka; The Utopian Generation; The Return of the Water Spirit \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJaime Bunda, Secret Agent: Story of various mysteries.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pepetela","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42248004730926,"sku":null,"price":190.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0265\/3182\/3662\/files\/Ngunga_sAdventu.jpg?v=1775814141","url":"https:\/\/clarkesbooks.co.za\/products\/ngungas-adventures-a-story-of-angola","provider":"Clarke's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}