Overview
Region
Central Africa
Angola
Era
Post-colonial
Language
Portuguese
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
A factory worker is arrested and tortured by the PIDE secret police for nationalist activities. Written from prison, it tells of his wife's search through Luanda's musseques, the first great anti-colonial novel of Angolan literature.
Literary Significance
Written while Vieira was imprisoned by the Portuguese colonial regime; a founding text of Angolan literature