O Testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009B0N0RK
Publish date: 2012-02-27
Publisher: Caminho
Pages no: 107
Edition language: Portuguese
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...