Luanda, Angola, 1990. Ndalu is a normal twelve-year-old boy in an extraordinary time and place. Like his friends, he enjoys laughing at his teachers, avoiding homework, and telling tall tales. But Nda
"Ondjaki delivers playful magical realism with delightful defiance." —The Barnes & Noble Review"As with Ondjaki's other novels—including Bom dis camaradas (2001; Good Morning Comrades) and Os Transpar
By the beaches of Luanda, the Soviets are building a grand mausoleum in honour of the Comrade President. Granmas are whispering: houses, they say, will be dexploded, and everyone will have to leave.
