by Mia Couto · Caminho · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722110501
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«A varanda do frangipani» is the novel by Mia Couto, published by Caminho in paperback (154 pages, in Portuguese).
The action takes place in the Fortress of San Nicolás, an old Portuguese fort converted into an old people's home in Mozambique. A police inspector investigates a murder in which all the suspects want to take the blame. The novel combines fable, allegory, dreams and myths, and addresses memory, identity and the colonial legacy.
This novel belongs to the series «Uma Terra Sem Amos» (no. 76); its first edition appeared in Lisbon in 1996.
Aimed at readers interested in Mozambican literature and contemporary narrative, with a taste for the detective and the mythical.
António Emílio Leite Couto, better known as Mia Couto, is a Mozambican writer. He won the Camões Prize in 2013, the most important literary award in the Portuguese language, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2014.
