‘Women Here and Now’ at the Brazil-Mozambique Cultural Centre in Maputo
Book release “The magical tree”
4:01 CAT | 21 October 2019
Book release “The magical tree”
Date and Time: Thursday, October 24 2019 at 18h00
Entrance: Free
Address: Camões - Centro Cultural Português em Maputo, Av. Julius Nyerere no. 720, Maputo
About the event
On October 24, at 18h00, will take place at Camões - Portuguese Cultural Center in Maputo the launch of the book "The magical tree", with text by the writer Lurdes Breda and illustrations by the artist Roberto Chichorro. This book presentation session, which has the seal of the Portuguese School of Mozambique - Center for Teaching and Portuguese Language (EPM-CELP), will be attended by writer Pedro Pereira Lopes and illustrator Luís Cardoso.
About the book
“The magic tree” is a tale structured in a hybrid language between Portuguese and one of Mozambique's Bantu Languages - Changana - and is aimed at children and young people.
It's the story of a baobab who traded sleep for imagination. For many moons it stood with open petals watching the boys play behind the butterflies, among the branches of flowering words. Until, by magic, they disappeared into their heart. The imagination of the tree also brought rain to the earth, and left amazed animals and people who told their deeds by word of mouth, from village to village. But after so many moons with open petals, the baobab withered with weariness. How to bring back the sleep of the tree, everyone wondered?
The book will be on sale for 800 MZN
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