Het testament van senhor Araújo
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9789052266435 (9052266433)
Publish date: 2000
Publisher: De Geus / Novib
Pages no: 176
Edition language: Dutch
In this novella, a rich businessman, Napumoceno da Silva Araujo, has just died, leaving a surprising will; everyone assumed the straitlaced old bachelor led an abstemious life, but it turns out he had his share of sexcapades. The book is set in Cape Verde, an island nation off the west coast of Afri...
Cape Verde. This was a fast, enjoyable book, a very funny novel whose absent protagonist leaves a will that runs to hundreds of pages. Embedded in the will and other characters' associations to it or tangents from it is the dead man's apologia pro vita sua. While sometimes he seems to be on the leve...
Log in with Facebook 
