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A roiling chronicle of motherhood and colonization from a writer who “alternates between a dramatic, high-octave style and a terse and humorous frankness” (Sheila Heti) Recipient of the 2021 Camões Prize, the most important award for literature in the Portuguese languageA potent whirl of history, mythology, and grapevine chatter, The Joyful Cry of the Partridge absorbs readers into its many hiding places and along the wandering paths of its pr...

After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double--or rather, a quintuple--life. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. Rami remains calm in the face of her husband's duplicity and plots to make an honest man out of him. After Tony is forced to marry the four other women--as well as an additional lover--according to polygamist custom, th...