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Under the Frangipani

von Mia Couto

Fiction Mystery African Literature

ISBN

0864863780

Verlag

New Africa Books

Erschienen

01.01.1970

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Komme während der Öffnungszeiten vorbei und leihe ein verfügbares Exemplar aus.

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African literature Mozambican fiction post-independence Africa surrealism allegory fable colonialism civil war Western materialism traditional beliefs night spirit murder mystery cultural identity epic narrative literary fiction magical realism historical themes social commentary adult fiction Mia Couto Beira Maputo agronomist Portuguese colonialism African culture spiritual journey investigative narrative.

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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 the director of the Mozambican Information Agency and the newspaper "Noticias," He currently lives in Maputo where he works as an agronomist,"