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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Murmuring Coast (1988)di Lídia Jorge
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. An interestingly bifurcated story: the first one tells the tale of the wedding between a young Portuguese ensign and his bride during the colonial war in Mozambique, and the second tells the continuation of the tale from a very different angle, which reveals dark truths about the events told in the first part. This is one of those tricky books where the reading part isn't necessarily very enjoyable, but there is something that pulls you in, something eerie that keeps you reading, and at the end you come out with a richer understanding of a place, a people, or a feeling. A little hard going, but worth the effort, for sure. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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This captivating tale is told in two parts. The first presents Lidia Jorge's version of a traditional story about a series of supposed incidents set in Beira, Mozambique. The events take place in the final years of Portugal's colonial African wars as an undisclosed narrator describes the military wedding of a young Portuguese ensign and an equally young bride. The wedding is followed by the mass poisoning of hundreds of native Africans and the arrival of a rain of locusts. The story ends grimly with the groom's suicide. Evita Lopo, the unnamed bride from the first part, narrates the remainder of the story. Twenty years have gone by and she reviews the past and questions the unidentified narrator's rendering of events in the first section. Evita's reminiscences destroy the credibility of the earlier story, and she supplies the reader with a great deal of information that the author of the previous account had suppressed or to which he or she merely alluded. It becomes apparent that betrayal and guilt have motivated all of the characters' actions. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)869.342Literature Spanish and Portuguese Portuguese Portuguese fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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