An old man and a young boy, refugee from a civil war, seek shelter in a burnt out bus. Among the belongings of a dead passenger, they discover a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, the tale gradually becomes part of their own lives. Set in the author's native Mozambique, sleepwalking land examines the effect of war and devastation on a newly independent African nation and reflects a period in the history of Mozambique when the country could only go forward after ...
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An old man and a young boy, refugee from a civil war, seek shelter in a burnt out bus. Among the belongings of a dead passenger, they discover a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, the tale gradually becomes part of their own lives. Set in the author's native Mozambique, sleepwalking land examines the effect of war and devastation on a newly independent African nation and reflects a period in the history of Mozambique when the country could only go forward after settling its account with the bloody past.
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