DONATO NDONGO / DONATO NDONGO-BIDYOGO
"Finalist for the Sesame Prize in 1984, Las tinieblas de tu memoria negra is the first and best-known novel by Donato Ndongo. Widely studied as representative of postcolonial literary creation, Óis, for many, the best African novel written in Spanish", in the words of Gustau Nerín. From the rhythm and narrative forms of the oral tradition of his Fang ethnic group, the child protagonist, nameless, narrates his moving, surprising and powerful story in the form of reflections on the past contrasted with the present that he lives, trapped between two cultures, in the transition between two eras of profound historical changes, through his sharp, innocent and anguished perspective. , shows the reality of Equatorial Guinea during the last period of Spanish colonialism, a situation in which he will try to find his own dignity." -- www.casadellibro.com.
