Chiziane Paulina - The Joyful Song Of The Partridge - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A potent whirl of history mythology and grapevine chatter The Joyful Cry of the Partridge absorbs readers into its many hiding places and along the wandering paths of its principal characters whose stark words will stay with you long after the journey is done. No one knows where Maria des Dores came from. Did she ride in on the armoured spines of crocodiles was she carried many miles in the jaws of fish? The only clear fact is that she is here sitting naked in the river bordering a town where nothing ever happens. The townspeople murmur restlessly that she is possessed by perverse impulses. They interpret her arrival as an omen of crop failure or in more hopeful tones a sign that womankind will soon seize power from the greedy hands of men. As The Joyful Cry of the Partridge unfolds Paulina Chiziane spirals back in time to Maria's true origins: the days of Maria's mother and father when the pressure to assimilate in Portuguese - controlled Mozambique formed a distorting bond on the lives of black Mozambicans.
Title: The Joyful Song Of The Partridge
Author(s): Chiziane Paulina
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Barcode: 9781953861689
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 5/28/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction