Yaka
The novel manages to get under the skin of the white settlers - a community of exconvicts, political exiles and others not exactly welcome in the 'home' country of Portugal - united by their fear of blacks and their own rapacious greed. [Alexandre Semedo]'s family, like any large fami...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | New Internationalist 1996 (281), p.32-32 |
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| Format: | Review |
| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The novel manages to get under the skin of the white settlers - a community of exconvicts, political exiles and others not exactly welcome in the 'home' country of Portugal - united by their fear of blacks and their own rapacious greed. [Alexandre Semedo]'s family, like any large family, is riven by clashing ambitions and thwarted desires, and Alexandre watches as it is pulled apart. |
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| ISSN: | 0305-9529 |