Mia Couto was born in 1955 in Mozambique and is the most prominent writer in Portuguese-speaking Africa. He has been active as a journalist and for several years headed the AIM news agency in Maputo. He now lives in Maputo where he works as an environmental biologist.
On almost every page of this witty magic realist whodunit, we sense
Couto's delight in those places where language slips officaldom's
asphyxiating grasp
*fragmentary narratives? New Statesman ?Under the Frangipani is a
powerful and trenchant evocation of life in a society traumatised
by decades of war and poverty? New Internationalist*
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