The stories I create are never as awful as reality.
People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.
It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music
Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.
At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.
I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.