Locations like Mozambique offer longer-term horizons in frontier markets. It is due to its nature and the capital, that Mozambique will become one of the most attractive destinations. The place having property companies frontier markets is also emerging as the largest receiver of real estate investment money.

Opportunities in real estate in recent years

The real estate investment opportunities in Mozambique tend to build rapidly. Across various platforms and geographies, the country’s real estate agents wish to see new deals from various companies around the world. Mozambique hosts numerous definitive and multilingual industry events for real estate developers and investors who wish to strike a cost-effective deal with Mozambique.

Expectations for future investments

According to the developers of the real estate of Mozambique, they are receiving a lot of interest from the international market investors. The community of real estate agents in Mozambique believes that they will see a significant increase in deal-making between local as well as international companies. It is seen that the market sentiment has improved significantly over the recent few years. This year, the real estate developers in Mozambique are venturing on exploring various companies that can position themselves in the international market. They are also expecting to become one of the important real estate centers in Africa over the next few years.

Objectives of the real estate market developers

The real estate management developers wish to highlight various prospects regarding property investments in Africa and different promotional events. They wish to become the leading producer of real estate business which also focuses on networking conferences across various territories of the world. They will also highlight various improvements regarding real investment of regional, local and international developers. They will provide affordable real estate solutions regarding investment in their country.

I was tempted to give this novella 4 stars, mostly because even though it is an obscure translated book, I found it readable and was interested in the characters. But I try to rate all books on the same scale, including obscure translations, and while this is a decent, competent story, it doesn’t quite reach the 4 star level for me.

Neighbours follows three households for one fateful night. In the first, a mother and her adult daughters prepare food for Eid; in the second, a young couple and their child relax in their newly-acquired flat (acquired at great difficulty due to bureaucratic obstructions); in the third, a group of conspirators prepares for murder while an abused wife tries to find out what’s going on. We also spend substantial time in the backstories of many of these characters, learning how they became who they are.

This is a story both personal and political, a fact evident even in the title. The households are drawn together because they’re neighbors; the crime, though carefully planned, is almost random: the conspirators choose the victims because they live next door to African National Congress refugees. But that leads to the political: this is a story about Mozambique, but it has a powerful and dangerous neighbor in South Africa, which sponsors the killings to support its own apartheid regime. In that sense both the nation and the individuals are victimized based on the accident of their neighbors.

But this isn’t an op-ed book: the characters are believable individuals in their own right, and while we learn a fair bit about Mozambique in the process, that’s because what they have lived through becomes part of who they are, not because the author uses the story as a historical tract. I am impressed by how much of the history Momplé manages to weave into the story, though, and it did whet my appetite for more. Meanwhile, it’s interesting that she gives no time at all to the South African characters who intersect with the story, even while delving into the backgrounds and motivations of everyone else; I can only presume this was deliberate, to keep this story to Mozambique even while South Africa tries to interfere.

All that said, and though I was interested in and came to like some of the characters even in a scant 131 pages, I ultimately found this book too short for the number of characters it contains and the amount of material it covers. Particularly with the conspirators, we read so many backstories so quickly that I had some trouble remembering which life went with which man. And elements that at first seem important to the story, such as Narguiss’s husband’s desertion, fade into the background without being dealt with. If this book had been a bit longer, and given its characters a bit more to do, it would have merited a solid 4 stars. As is, 3.5 for a sad and thought-provoking story that doesn’t quite reach its full potential.