We Killed Mangy-Dog and Other Stories

Posted on 19 April 2017 by Luís Bernardo Honwana

These short stories are all set in Mozambique. Download We Killed Mangy-Dog and Other Stories – kino-fada.fr Este um livro que passa despercebido a um grande leque de leitores Por m, quando olhado com mais aten o, percebe se que em poucas e simples p ginas procurou a chamar a aten o de situa es injustas, explorat rias e pobremente humanas Desenrola se nele uma sequ ncia de contos interligados a um espa o, um territ rio que precisa de ser tomado em aten o Penso que o despertar desta aten o que o autor procurou quando elaborou esta obra Tudo isto atrav s da perspect...This is one for the reading around the world challenge I came across it when I was browsing through my bookshelves looking for books by people with foreign sounding names.I have actually read it before I read it when I bought it, about 15 years ago but it s short, so I thought I d re read it before ticking Mozambique off the list I don t remember it making much impact on me then, but this time I was impressed It s a slim 117 page collection of vivid, fatalistic short stories, set in rur This is one for the reading around the world challenge I came across it when I was browsing through my bookshelves looking for books by people with foreign sounding names.I have actually read it before I read it when I bought it, about 15 years ago but it s short, so I thought I d re read it before ticking Mozambique off the list I don t remember it making much impact on me then, but this ti...This collection of short stories is full of compassionate, honest and simple voices The prose is beautiful for its simplicity First published in 1969, Honwana s stories present to the reader various aspects of life in a small Mozambican village I was surprised at how subtle these stories are in their political and humanistic messages, particularly in light of their having been written during a period of great change and turmoil The title story is absolutely heartbreaking and brilliant wort This collection of short stories is full of compassionate, honest and simple voices The prose is beautiful for its simplicity First published in 1969, Honwana s stories present to the reader various aspects of life in a small Mozambican village I was s...Escritor mo ambicano, Lu s Bernardo Honwana nasceu em 1942, vivendo parte da sua vida ainda durante a poca colonial Em 1964 publicou N s Matamos o C o Tinhoso , uma narrativa que compila sete contos, on...Obra verdadeiramente fundadora da literatura de Mo ambique, o livro de Lu s Bernardo Honwana ultrapassa a dimens o pol tica que a inscreve na hist ria do nacionalismo mo ambicano trata se, mais do que isso, de uma obra de voca o universal, em que cada um dos sete contos que a comp em reflectem o essencial da condi o humana, sobretudo vista do lado dos que sofrem ...O conto t tulo um dos mais belos que j li em l ngua portuguesa.I found a handful of African Writers series books in a secondhand stall and bought the lot This is the best of the lot.Underwhelming Perhaps my lack of knowledge on colonial Mozambique affected my appreciation of the work But I enjoyed the first story, Dina, and then it went downhill from there The story the book takes its title from, We killed Mangy Dog, was unnecessa...A 1 edi o traduzida por Dorothy Guedes, mulher de Pancho Guedes , com um desenho de Pedro Guedes reproduzido na capa A edi o original de N s Mat mos o C o Tinhoso de 1964, estando o autor preso e em risco de desaparecer na pris o, tendo sido editada pelo arquitecto Pancho GuedesMuito bom Descri es espectaculares.Contos magn ficos.Dramatiza o po tica.

English
19 April 2017

Luís Bernardo Honwana