The tuner of silences [WorldCat Entities]

"Henning Mankell Mwanito was eleven when he saw a woman for the first time, and the sight so surprised him he burst into tears. Mwanito has been living in a former big-game park for eight years. The only people he knows are his father, his brother, an uncle, and a servant. He's been told that the rest of the world is dead, that all roads are sad, that they wait for an apology from God. In the place his father calls Jezoosalem, Mwanito has been told that crying and praying are the same thing. Both, it seems, are forbidden. 'The Tuner of Silences' is the story of Mwanito's struggle to reconstruct a family history that his father is unable to discuss. With the young woman's arrival in Jezoosalem, however, the silence of the past quickly breaks down, and both his father's story and the world are heard once more."
"Jesusalém é seguramente a mais madura e mais conseguida obra de um escritor em plena posse das suas capacidades criativas. Aliando uma narrativa a um tempo complexa e aliciante ao seu estilo poético tão pessoal, Mia Couto confirma o lugar cimeiro de que goza nas literaturas de língua portuguesa. A vida e ́demasiado preciosa para ser esbanjada num mundo desencantado, diz um dos protagonistas deste romance. A prosa mágica do escritor moçambicano ajuda, certamente, a reencantar este nosso mundo."
"The father Mwanito, after his wife's death, takes his children and faithful friend Zachariah Kalash and settle on a piece of land, which he called out of Jerusalem, far from everyone and everything. For him "the world over, and theywere the last survivors," such was the grief of losing his wife."
"""Eleven when I saw a woman for the first time, I was seized by such surprise I burst into tears."""@en
"Een jongetje groeit in een kleine besloten gemeenschap van alleen mannen op, onwetend dat de wereld groter is."