A compass upheaval
This captures the erratic blusteriness of storms. Although this book is set in Africa, the metaphor reminds me of the...
Reading as a meandering canoe
This is a beautiful metaphor for a boy discovering the magic of reading and writing, both of which were forbidden...
Silence & music
Music is everywhere, this seems to imply; even silence is gravid with it!
‘Every silence contains music in a state...
Street stories
The street as a fount of stories, conveying the detail and complexity of human lives, even those which may appear...
Scribbles in the sand
In Couto's superb novel, a disturbed father tries to isolate his sons from life and learning by taking them to...
The components of story
This idea keeps coming back to me, and even though I question the components featured, intuitively it sounds right. Another...
Reading as road
Another metaphor describing how this young boy was progressing as his older brother taught him to read and write in...
The closeness of a couple
Beautiful description of the closeness of a couple. But yes, those two simple opening words, ‘at first’, contain a cloud...
Walking like a baobab
What a wonderful and appropriate metaphor, set in a land where baobab trees grow.
‘His steps were like a baobab...
The silence of stones
As someone who is forever picking up pebbles, this struck me. Silent yes, but I have never seen them as...
Watching the sun rise
This line stands out in the book as a contrast to the father’s generally benighted, crushing behaviour towards his sons,...
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