Do you know if the period in which this novel takes place is perhaps in the aftermath of the departure of the Portuguese? A friend of mine who worked for the UNDP was stationed in what she referred to as Angola at that time (and she learned Portuguese incidentally before she was posted there) and living conditions were horrible for everyone, food shortages etc.
Do you know if the period in which this novel takes place is perhaps in the aftermath of the departure of the Portuguese? A friend of mine who worked for the UNDP was stationed in what she referred to as Angola at that time (and she learned Portuguese incidentally before she was posted there) and living conditions were horrible for everyone, food shortages etc.
Hi Martha, the book is set following Angola's civil war in the mid-1970s, after independence from Portugal.
That would have been about the time my friend was there. thanks.