Summary
Mwanito is eleven and has spent his whole life in Jezoosalem, a deserted hunting reserve at the edge of the world where his grieving father has exiled the family, declaring the rest of humanity dead. The boy’s task is to soothe his father’s silences. Then a woman appears from beyond their wilderness, and the outside world comes flooding back. A poetic, luminous novel of memory and mourning by Mozambique’s greatest writer, winner of the Camões Prize.
