African Writers Series: Neighbours, The Story of a Murder
On the eve of the Muslim festival of Eid, Narguiss, who never wanted anything to do with politics', is more preoccupied with family problems than with the radio news of kidnappings and killings. But before dawn she and some of her neighbours - ordinary people seeking to lead peaceful lives - will have become caught up in a vicious South African conspiracy to infiltrate and destabilise postcolonial Mozambique. Meanwhile, in another Maputo household, Mena prepares a meal for her husband and his suspicious looking guests and realises to her horror that they are plotting an assassination in which each with his different history is motivated by hatred, vengeance or greed. Skilfully weaving together present events and past memories, Lilia Mompl gives us, in the drama of a few short hours, the story of much more than one murder. She gives us the story of the struggle to overthrow a corrupt and brutal colonial regime and achieve lasting freedom and democracy in Mozambique. A glossary explains terms common in Mozambique.
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