Chuva Braba
Encyclopedia
Chuva Braba is a Capeverdean
novel
published in 1957 by Manuel Lopes
. The book was awarded the Fernão Mendes Pinto
award.
There are a few differing translations. One, entitled, Wild Rain was translated by R. Evora Brito, PH.D., and published in 1982 and re-issued in 1994 by Copy-Masters Inc. in Taunton, MA. (No ISBN available)
Cape Verde
The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
published in 1957 by Manuel Lopes
Manuel Lopes
Manuel António de Sousa Lopes was a Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist and a founder of modern Cape Verdean literature. With Baltasar Lopes da Silva and Jorge Barbosa he was a creator of the paper named Claridade...
. The book was awarded the Fernão Mendes Pinto
Fernão Mendes Pinto
Fernão Mendes Pinto was a Portuguese explorer and writer. His exploits are known through the posthumous publication of his memoir Pilgrimage in 1614, an autobiographical work whose truthfulness is nearly impossible to assess...
award.
There are a few differing translations. One, entitled, Wild Rain was translated by R. Evora Brito, PH.D., and published in 1982 and re-issued in 1994 by Copy-Masters Inc. in Taunton, MA. (No ISBN available)