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I have rarely had a reading experience as strange and disturbing as this one. Much of this book is grim, very grim, and I was helped through that by the August sun shining on the pages as I read in the garden, and by the beautiful design of this book. The blurb doesn't do it justice; it speaks of plot, a society "where colonial infuences still run deep", of satire. Maybe the publishers, translating this from the Portuguese (a language brought to Mozambique by invaders / colonisers) for an Anglop
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I found this book and realized I’d read nothing from Mozambique. When I lived in Malawi we often bought the Danish butter fat given to the Mozambiquan refugees to use as cooking oil! I knew a Malawian who made a mint making id cards of refugees–yes profit happens all the time. It was many, many years ago. So, as I am “Reading the Globe” or “Reading Around the World” by finding a book set in or written by a person from every country–this was a good find. That it was translated, by a wo ...more
I found this book and realized I’d read nothing from Mozambique. When I lived in Malawi we often bought the Danish butter fat given to the Mozambiquan refugees to use as cooking oil! I knew a Malawian who made a mint making id cards of refugees–yes profit happens all the time. It was many, many years ago. So, as I am “Reading the Globe” or “Reading Around the World” by finding a book set in or written by a person from every country–this was a good find. That it was translated, by a wo ...more
this was a 3.5 read for me
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