
Tchanaze
Beauty and the Beads
Carlos Paradona Rufino Roque(Author)
Dedalus Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 16. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-915568-26-7 (ISBN)
Description
Part traditional fable, part thriller, Tchanaze is a tale of magic and witchcraft, but also a portrayal of a world where traditions are preyed upon and superstitions exploited to hide evil, yet all-too-human truths.
Tchanaze is the pride of Sena, a virgin and a beauty coveted throughout the Zambeze region. Mbemba is deemed ugly in comparison and fears she will never find a husband. Her mother employs a witchdoctor to expel the evil spirits from Mbema and put them in Tchanaze, who subsequently dies. But word reaches Campira, a shaman from Sena, that Tchanaze is alive and living in a village further up the valley. He takes Thomossene and Suplera, Tchanaze's parents, on a mission to rescue their daughter and liberate her from the curse. But to do this they must rely on the fearsome satanic witchdoctor, Phanga.
Tchanaze is the pride of Sena, a virgin and a beauty coveted throughout the Zambeze region. Mbemba is deemed ugly in comparison and fears she will never find a husband. Her mother employs a witchdoctor to expel the evil spirits from Mbema and put them in Tchanaze, who subsequently dies. But word reaches Campira, a shaman from Sena, that Tchanaze is alive and living in a village further up the valley. He takes Thomossene and Suplera, Tchanaze's parents, on a mission to rescue their daughter and liberate her from the curse. But to do this they must rely on the fearsome satanic witchdoctor, Phanga.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambs
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
195 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-915568-26-7 (9781915568267)
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Carlos Paradona Rufino Roque was born in 1963 in Inhamiga, Mozambique. He has worked as a lawyer, a social sciences researcher and a journalist.
He has three novels to his name: Tchanaze, a donzela de Sena (Tchanaze, 2009), N'tsai Tchassassa, a virgem de missangas (N'tsai Tchassassa, Virgin of the Beads, 2013), Carota N'tchakatcha, feitiços e mitos (Carota N'tchakatcha, Spells and Myths, 2018). He has also written a collection of poems, A Gestação do Luar (The Moon's Gestation, 1991).
He is the current Secretary General of the Association of Mozambican Writers.
He has three novels to his name: Tchanaze, a donzela de Sena (Tchanaze, 2009), N'tsai Tchassassa, a virgem de missangas (N'tsai Tchassassa, Virgin of the Beads, 2013), Carota N'tchakatcha, feitiços e mitos (Carota N'tchakatcha, Spells and Myths, 2018). He has also written a collection of poems, A Gestação do Luar (The Moon's Gestation, 1991).
He is the current Secretary General of the Association of Mozambican Writers.