Bidspirit auction | SOROMENHO (Castro). NHÁRÍ: O Drama

SOROMENHO (Castro). NHÁRÍ: O Drama da Gente Negra. Porto. 1938. - SOROMENHO (Castro) NHÁRÍ: O Drama da Gente Negra . Porto: Livraria Civilização, 1938. 186 pp.; 195 mm. First edition, debut book by Fernando Monteiro de Castro Soromenho (Chinde, Mozambique, 1910 - São Paulo, 1968), born into a Portuguese family and raised in Angola, where he worked in the colonial administration in the eastern hinterlands and was a reporter for the Diário de Luanda before returning to Portugal in 1937. Nhári brings together short stories and novellas about the life and culture of the people of Lunda, a region in northeastern Angola where the author lived in his youth, and constitutes the first major literary fruit of his immersion in the African world. The title, which in the local language designates a type of antelope, serves as a symbol for the drama of black populations under colonialism. Rare in this first edition. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate