Under The Frangipani
(Mia Couto)
?Here is where the land undresses itself and the time lies down? A policeman travels to an island to investigate a murder in retirement home. In a confined space only reachable by helicopter, the policemen, possessed by a spirit of a detective, tries to reveal the mystery. Under the Frangipani a novel by Mia Couto. A group of old people abandoned to their luck, in an analogy to Mozambique, a blessed land. The history is a reflection on the consequences of war and the unstable balance established by the peace. In the narrative, marked by the words invented and reinvented by the author, the reader is drawn to feel the smell of the land, in an environment where the fantastic becomes real and reliable. It is a book written with passion ?It is the land, my land! ?.
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