"On almost every page of this witty magical realist whodunit, we sense Couto's delight on those places where language slips officialdom's asphyxiating grasp."--The New York Times Book Review on The Last Flight of the Flamingo
"The most prominent of the younger generation of writers in Portuguese-speaking Africa, Couto passionately and sensitively describes everyday life in poverty-stricken Mozambique."--Guardian (London)
"Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa."--Doris Lessing
As the civil war rages in 1980s Mozambique, an old man and a...
"On almost every page of this witty magical realist whodunit, we sense Couto's delight on those places where language slips officialdom's asphyxiat...
"An original and fresh tale, quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa. I enjoyed it very much."--Doris Lessing
"A peculiarily African sensibility . . . a writer of fluid, fragmentary narratives. . . . Remarkable."--New Statesman
A police inspector is investigating a strange murder--a case in which all the suspects are eager to claim responsibility for the act.
Set in a former Portuguese slave fort, Under the Frangipani combines fable and allegory, dreams and myths with an earthy humor. Part thriller, part an exploration of language itself, Mia...
"An original and fresh tale, quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa. I enjoyed it very much."--Doris Lessing
Paulo Freire David Brookshaw Alexandre K. Oliveira
This new book, constructed from Paulo Freire's writings near the end of his life, is characterized by the eloquence of his dreams-dreams that constituted the utopia underlying Freire's lifelong work. Freire challenges all educators to create Circles of Dialogues, or reflective spaces, for passionate and critical reflection that is coherent and humanizing, favoring the oppressed peoples of the world. The chapters, crafted toward the end of the twentieth century, reflect Freire's deep concern with the assault by neoliberal policies on the basic democratic rights of the dispossessed, as he...
This new book, constructed from Paulo Freire's writings near the end of his life, is characterized by the eloquence of his dreams-dreams that constitu...
After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double--or rather, a quintuple--life. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. Rami remains calm in the face of her husband's duplicity and plots to make an honest man out of him. After Tony is forced to marry the four other women--as well as an additional lover--according to polygamist custom, the rival lovers join together to declare their voices and demand their rights. In this brilliantly funny and feverishly scathing critique, a major work...
After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double--or rather, a quintuple--life. Tony, a senior police officer ...
