Ondjaki develops in this work, which he defines as autobiographical, a trip to the childhood and to his native land. The narrator is a 10-year-old boy who tells us about his everyday life: familiar ties, the school and the violence of a country that is no more a Portuguese colony. An intense story full of irony, in which there prevails the aptitude to create a children’s universe guided by this passage of contemporary history of Angola, his native land, which covered a long and tortuous course to build its independence.
