From Publishers Weekly
Death seeps its wily way into every corner of the living world in this lyrical novel by Mozambican writer Mia Couto. At the start of Under the Frangipani, the narrator, a dead man, is assigned to occupy the body of a police inspector who is investigating the murder of the director of an old people's refuge housed in a former Portuguese fort. Dreamily narrated, but sharp in outline, Couto's novel is a richly rewarding real-life fable set far from the world as Western readers know it. Trans. from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw.
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Book Description
Returning from the dead, the narrator inhabits the head of a Mozambican police inspector investigating the murder of a man called Vastsome Excellency. A murder where all the suspects are eager to claim they alone have killed the victim...Weaving together historical truth and individual dreams, Under the Frangipani challenges the way we think about life, death and the universe.
