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"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 Couto's novel surprises and delights.
Mia Couto works as an agronomist in Maputo, Mozambique.
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Billie Van Sandt
reviewed Under the Frangipani on October 22, 2011
Under the Frangipani
A good dose of magic realism African style, set in post colonial Mozambique. A police inspector is sent to investigate a murder at a remote fort used as a hospital/refuge. Whilst he is there he is also inhabited by the shade/ghost of a worker buried under the frangipani tree in the fort (unknown to him). The residents of the fort are a group of older people waiting for death, their nurse, an elderly witch/wise woman and the wife of the deceased (who ran the fort). They all readily confess to the crime. There is magic, talking animals, the dead are all around and the whole story is rather surreal and chronology is pleasingly loose. It is a pleasing mix of thriller and parable which explores the spirit world and old beliefs and traditions. There is a message to the old colonial masters in the frontnote; "You will never rule this land". Short, sharp and remarkable.
Michael Holden
reviewed Under the Frangipani on June 20, 2020 Under the Frangipani
How to live when you are dead inside or vice versa ...
When you have lived so long your tongue have nearly out-growed your mouth, as an anteater you clearly have some wisdom worth sharing.
A lovely trip into the supernatural of Mozambique traditions of old, which turns out to be not that supernatural at all.
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Add Under the Frangipani, 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 pol, Under the Frangipani to your collection on WonderClub |