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A Stranger at My Table

By Ivo de Figueiredo

Translation © 2018 Deborah Dawkin

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© 2016 Ivo de Figueiredo

Published by agreement with Copenhagen Literary Agency ApS, Copenhagen.

All photographs and documents are taken from family albums and are courtesy of Ivo de Figueiredo, except the images of Rita Tushingham, p. 135, and Paul Danquah, p. 136, which come from the 1961 film A Taste of Honey © British Lion/ Woodfall/ The Kobal Collection.

The DoppelHouse Press publication of this translation has been made possible through the financial support of NORLA, Norwegian Literature Abroad.

COVER DESIGN: Janet Lê with Carrie Paterson

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PUBLISHER’S CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Figueiredo, Ivo de, 1966-, author. | Dawkin, Deborah, translator.

Title: A Stranger at my table : the post-colonial story of a family caught in the half-life of empires / by Ivo de Figueiredo; translated by Deborah Dawkin.

Description: Includes bibliographical references. | Los Angeles, CA: DoppelHouse Press, 2019.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018959796 | ISBN 9780999754474

Subjects: LCSH Figueiredo, Ivo de, 1966-. | Figueiredo, Ivo de, 1966- --Family. | Fathers and sons. | Children of immigrants--Norway--Biography. | Families. | India--Emigration and immigration. | Goa, Daman and Diu (India)--History. | Decolonization--Africa. | BISAC BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General

Classification: LCC JV8218 .F55 2019 | DDC 325.481/09--dc23

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