Under the Frangipani
By Unknown Author.
Description
Coming back from the dead, the narrator turns into a night spirit and inhabits the head of a Mozambican police inspector who is investigating a surreal murder. But could the true victim be traditional African beliefs and a way of life ravaged first by Portuguese colonialism, then by civil war ,and finally by Western materialism? Using both fable and allegory, Mia Couto creates a mysterious and surreal epic that brilliantly captures the spirit of post-independence Africa.Mia Couto was born in Beira, Mozambique in 1955. During the years after the independence of his country in 1975, he was th...
ISBN(s)
1852427299, 9781852427290
