Neighbours

On the eve of the Muslim festival of Eid, Narguiss, who never wanted anything to do with politics , is preoccupied with family problems than with the radio news of kidnappings and murders.Nearby, Leia, Janu rio and their young daughter are caught up in the pleasure and security of finally finding a flat of their own, while Mena, who was once the beauty of her village, overhears her husband plotting murder.Before dawn, these innocent people seeking to lead peaceful lives are thrown together in a vicious conspiracy to infiltrate and destabilise Mozambique.Skilfully weaving together present events and age old traditions through narrative snapshots , L lia Mompl gives us, in the drama of a few short hours, an insight into the consequences of Mozambique s complex history. Best Read [ Neighbours ] By [ Lília Momplé ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr The book grew on me It tells the stories of the perpetuators and the victims of a brutal home invasion and politically inspired murders The murderer s stories focus on their motivations greed, revenge, power and how they wer...Neighbors are neighbors largely by chance We choose the place where we want to live, but we don t get to choose the people who live next door to us As Mozambican novelist L lia Mompl demonstrates in Neighbours The Story of a Murder, the neighbors we live among can have a fateful impact on our lives This principle applies whether one is talking about people like the Maputo residents who make up most of the characters in this well written short novel or about countries for many years, on Neighbors are neighbors largely by chance We choose the place where we want to live, but we don t get to choose the people who live next door to us As Mozambican novelist L lia Mompl demonstrates in Neighbours The Story of a Murder, the neighbors we live among can have a fateful impact on our lives This principle applies whether one is talking about people like the Maputo residents who make up most of the characters in this well written short novel or about countries for many years, one of the decisive factors in the life of the nation of Mozambique was the fact that it shared a border with the apartheid regime of pre 1994 South Africa.Mompl s Neighbours weaves the personal and the political quite seamlessly Among the major characters of the novel chapter titles typically place us in their hom...I was tempted to give this novella 4 stars, mostly because even though it is an obscure translated book, I found it readable and was interested in the characters But I try to rate all books on the same scale, including obscure translations, and while this is a decent, competent story, it doesn t quite reach the 4 star level for me.Neighbours follows th...A fascinating story about post colonial Mozambique and the destabilising actions of apartheid South Africa This novel is delightfully short but loaded with compelling themes of violence, race, racism, gender and patriarchy This is the first Mozambican novel I ve ...A very short novella set in the tumultuous and unstable environment of newly independent Mozambique, published within two decades following its present tense setting Roughly three quarters of Neighbors is constructed as short vignettes of backgrounds, alternating between mostly painful pasts filled with personal suffering and a mostly unstable present which exists as the few short hours heading into a holiday s morning Three groups of characters Narguiss and her daughters Muntaz, Dinazar A very short novella set in the tumultuous and unstable environment of newly independent Mozambique, published within two decades following its present tense setting Roughly three quarters of Neighbors is constructed as short vignettes of backgrounds, alternating between mostly painful pasts filled with personal suffering and a mostly unstable present which exists as the few short hours heading into a holiday s morning Three groups of characters Narguiss and her daughters Muntaz, Dinazarde, and Rabia Leia and her husband Januario Mena, her husband Dupont, and his associates Romu and Zaliua confront, or attempt to adapt within, a country rife with corruption, abuse of power, political violence, shortages of goods, substandard public services, and poor infrastructure Added to this volatile mix are bitter colonial history and legacy which permeate throughout with exploitation, insurgencies, civil strife, and foreign meddling Th...Mozambique The book began with Whoever does not know from where the com Does not know where they are Nor where they are going .The book tells about the story of a muslim Mom Naguiss and her three daughters whom preparing for Eid Next to there flat new couple Leia and Janu rio And finally the abuse wife and here husband Dupont and Mena with his three partners whom planned for a crime.The way the story had been write is really unique and confusing in the same time.The book deals with pro Mozambique The book began with Whoever does not know from where the com Does not know where they are Nor where they are going .The book tells about the story of a muslim Mom Naguiss and her three daughters whom preparing for Eid Next to there flat new couple Leia and Janu rio And finally the abuse wife and here husband Dupont and Mena with his three partners whom planned for a crime.The way the story had been write is really unique and confusing in the same time.The book deals with problems Mozambican faces in there daily life...At first I struggled reading the book and making sense of the main characters from each story A very obscure read, the lives of different people who are totally unaware of their connectedness, going on abou...Pareceume un libro fant stico para comprender Mozambique A trav s de pouco m is de media ducia de personaxes consegu nentender mellor a s a historia recente e a s a realidade social do que esperar a de calquera ensaio.The story forms around three homes weaving their present to their past, and then back to their present It is a story positioned around Politics, Independence, and Racism a drama tied around family and country.

• English
• 17 December 2017
Lília Momplé
• Paperback
• 144 pages
• 0143026216
• Lília Momplé
• Neighbours