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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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João Vêncio: os seus amores : romance
2004, Editorial Caminho
in Portuguese
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João Vêncio, os seus amores: romance
2004, Editorial Nzila
in Portuguese
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9728823649 9789728823641
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The loves of João Vêncio
1991, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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0151463905 9780151463909
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