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The Loves of João Vêncio

José Luandino Vieira

3.8/5 ( ratings)

As Joao Vencio, mulatto hustler, awaits sentence in an Angolan jail for attempted murder, he recounts the loves and friendships of his life. There is Maristrela, the night-black wife of a white-trash doctor, who teaches him how to make the whydah birds sing more sweetly. Sissy, the boy with long blond curls, who shares with him the sensuousness of the ocean; and his sweetheart, his mocha-chocolate Bailundo girl, who brings him Moamba stew from the Benguela-Catumbela lands even though he tried to strangle her.

A book breathtaking in both its violence and its tenderness.

Language: English

Pages: 64

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

Release: March 01, 1991

ISBN: 0151463905

ISBN 13: 9780151463909

The Loves of João Vêncio

José Luandino Vieira

3.8/5 ( ratings)

As Joao Vencio, mulatto hustler, awaits sentence in an Angolan jail for attempted murder, he recounts the loves and friendships of his life. There is Maristrela, the night-black wife of a white-trash doctor, who teaches him how to make the whydah birds sing more sweetly. Sissy, the boy with long blond curls, who shares with him the sensuousness of the ocean; and his sweetheart, his mocha-chocolate Bailundo girl, who brings him Moamba stew from the Benguela-Catumbela lands even though he tried to strangle her.

A book breathtaking in both its violence and its tenderness.

Language: English

Pages: 64

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

Release: March 01, 1991

ISBN: 0151463905

ISBN 13: 9780151463909

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