The Word Tree

by Teolinda Gersão

Teolinda Gersa o paints an extraordinarily evocative picture of childhood in Africa and the stark contrast between warm, lush, ebullient Mozambique and the bleak, poor, priggish Portugal of Salazar.

'Salazar's forty-year dictatorship in Portugal and that country's colonial wars in Africa cast their long shadow over Teolinda Gersao's The Word Tree. This is the first of Gersao's novels to be translated into English. As the Mozambican Laureano...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903517885
• ISBN13: 9781903517888
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Dedalus
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 7.7"