The loves of João Vêncio
1st ed.
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Publication
1991 - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, California
Language
English
Word Count
16,000 words, Guess
Page Count
64 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1884676M
- ISBN-100151463905
- OCLC Control Number22274958
- OCLC Control Numberlovesofjoovn00viei
- Library of Congress Control Number90045618
and 2 more
- Goodreads1945497
- LibraryThing2202139
Classifications
- DDC869.3
- LCCPQ9929.V54 J613 1991
- LCCPC
and 2 more
- LCCPN
- LCCPL
Description
As João Vêncio, 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.
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