The Whistler
A Angola, Literature, Africa book. The window of her sadness was so vast that it almost opened a path to her...
From Angola, a country riddled with civil war and its aftereffects for the last 30 years, comes a surprising story of hope, passion, and magical realism from a groundbreaking, young African novelist. A young man arrives at the church of a small African village and starts whistling so beautifully that the priest is left in tears. As his weeklong stay continues, the whistler finds himself affected by the colorful inhabitants of the village as they all become bewitched and surrender to the moods of his melodies.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 102 pages
- ISBN: 9780955233975 / 955233976
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The window of her sadness was so vast that it almost opened a path to her soul. Ondjaki, The Whistler // The elders say- difficult to prove- that winged creatures also dream. The birds are lovers of heights, always searching out landing spots, never constant here at the foot of the human race. 'It's that they discovered a magical advantage...' they say, 'the sound of silence.'At the foot of the clouds the raindrops come earlier, it's true, and the silence of the sky is something unattainable for those who don't fly- we have never experimented. The dream of the birds was that man of them headed for a land where they experienced a similar magic to that lived... ... after daybreak is when I will already have died. At that moment I will only know of beautiful things: the certainties, the desires. When the sun bathes me, I will be something else: without mirrors, without sadness. I will have passed away, but will have been reborn. I will whistle mellifluous melodies. Discredited but, in the end, light. Ondjaki, The Whistler //
set in Angola. Non posso dire che mi abbia entusiasmato, ma una sorta di rustica favola piuttosto gradevole.Un uomo, il fischiatore del titolo, col suo passaggio migliora la vita di una comunit che sembrava leggermente sospesa, irrigidita nei suoi ruoli. L'unica a sfuggire all'incanto e alla comunit stessa Dissoxi, una ragazza dal passato sconosciuto... Angola
