It is a book from the author Mário Lúcio Sousa who won the literary prize Carlos Oliveira of 2009.
I decided to read this book by the fantastic and unusual premise of a brand new testament announced on a small african island reincarnated not by a man
God, but in the human form of a simple woman, believer, pious and black. And as I began to launch into the discovery of this amusing story, as credible, I could not help noticing not only the richness of the vocabulary, but also its clear sonority. And I had not yet reached the end of the reading, intrigued by its musicality, I decided to investigate a little about the author of this work that I admit I did not know and when I checked the small biography on the lapel of the back cover that he is a multiinstrumentist and had already worked with some of great names of the african music, everything made perfect sense. The compass of the narrative obeys a certain rhythm, it is a kind of syllabic melody that imposes a certain speed that is reflected in the way we read this work, does not mean that it is a quick reading, it is not that at all, but the best way of to describe it is using a metaphor ... it's like an ice cream that is relished with delight before the sun completely melts it up. And I rimed unintentionally, I swear, fruit of the inspiration that came from reading this book. Another aspect that attracted me in this "new testament" was its efabulation, a literary aspect that I greatly appreciate and which is in fact very recurrent in african writers. Then it is a very humorous book, if you are not a religious fanatic at least, you can delight your self in its satirical and even sarcastic tone that as it describes in the end it will be a sacred scripture for many readers. Blessed reading.
