This book, <a title="Tuner of Silences" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ATLNH6Y/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00ATLNH6Y&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=afrbooclu-20" target="_blank">The Turner of Silence by Mia Couto</a>, was like reading a dream. I loved it, I think, but I am not 100% sure what to make of the novel.

Above all, it was beautifully written. The novel is lyrical and magical.

However, if you asked me what the novel is <em>about</em>, I'd be hard pressed to give you a succinct solid answer to this question. Likewise, it's difficult to summarize the plot.

Doris Lessing said this about the novel: "Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa." So I knew that I had to read it. I mean, I adore Doris Lessing and I'd read anything she told me to read.

I have to agree with Doris Lessing and expand her claim. I've never read another novel like this. The prose is almost like poetry, the dialogue is crisp and the descriptions of place transport me to this foreign land and invented country.

Ultimately this book seems to explore the question: what makes a man--history, country, place, family, war, language, love, death?