Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.

What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.

My mother did what many men do. She left.

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

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.

Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world.

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.