A luminous woman
The woman appears after a period of darkness in the boys’ lives, from which women were excluded – she is the first...
Top soil on a veranda
Mia Couto’s metaphors are wonderful. This one conveys the dead weight appearance of a body slumped unconscious.
‘It certainly was...
A clinging sound
What a description of a sound that can’t be unheard.
'That noise was to cling to his inner ear like...
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,...
Walking like a baobab
What a wonderful and appropriate metaphor, set in a land where baobab trees grow.
‘His steps were like a baobab...
Compass needle obstinacy
Again, one to use in everyday language, I like the idea of obstinacy presented as the needle’s tenacity in pointing...
The components of story
This idea keeps coming back to me, and even though I question the components featured, intuitively it sounds right. Another...
Silence & music
Music is everywhere, this seems to imply; even silence is gravid with it!
‘Every silence contains music in a state...
The silence of stones
As someone who is forever picking up pebbles, this struck me. Silent yes, but I have never seen them as...
Life & understanding
Food for thought this one. Does it mean you are more alive when you are most baffled by it all?...
Reading as road
Another metaphor describing how this young boy was progressing as his older brother taught him to read and write in...
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