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Donato Ndongo's novel Shadows of your Black Memory, recently published in English translation by Swan Isle Press, received a glowing review in the March 2nd issue of The Independent:

This accomplished novel describes the love of something mercilessly elusive: a magical and transitory space floating between the past and the future, an eternal present wherein the moon is 'round and red, stained with the blood of the sun hidden behind the mountains.' Originally written in Spanish, Donato Ndongo's remarkable and strikingly original novel appears now in a subtle and elegant translation by Michael Ugarte, which does full justice to the dreamily poetic nature of the narrative.

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Donato Ndongo's novel Shadows of your Black Memory, recently published in English translation by Swan Isle Press, was reviewed by Emmanuel Harris in the most recent issue of PALARA:

Ugarte's text brilliantly captures the tone and cadence of the original novel and renders a thoughtful, compassionate narrative that readers will undoubtedly cherish. . . . Ndongo weaves an unforgettable tale that is at once Hispanic, bildungsroman and intensely and undeniably African. . . . Shadows of Your Black Memory is a work of outstanding quality and Donato Ndongo is without question an exceptional talent.

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Donato Ndongo and Michael Ugarte will be appearing at the Gaines-Oldham Black Culture Center, 813 Virginia Avenue, Columbia, Missouri on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus to celebrate the release of Ndongo's third novel El metro.

The event takes place on Wednesday, November 14th, from 3:00pm to 5:00pm (CST).

Spanish Literature and Culture Professor Benita Sampedro of Hofstra University will also give a guest lecture.

A reception will follow.

Swan Isle will be publishing Ndongo's Shadows of Your Black Memory this fall.

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Lucía Charún-Illescas' Malambo was recently reviewed by Miriam DeCosta-Willis, Ph.D. in the Fall 2006 issue (No. 10) of PALARA: Publication of the Afro Latin American Research Association. Both Charún and translator Emmanuel Harris II receive praise:

This is an important novel because it is the first work of fiction by an Afro-Peruvian woman, and it is one of very few Afro-Hispanic novels that have been translated into English. . . . Smooth, fluid prose. . . . An excellent translation, which captures the rhythm and flavor of an important work of art. For although it is a fictional account of Afro-Peruvian life in colonial Peru, Malambo calls into question hegemonic assumptions about Spanish American history by underscoring the role that African-descended people played in shaping that history.

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