Children of Adamastor

The terrorist nature of the Marxist revolution in Mocambique is starkly reflected in this story of a brave Portuguese girl who survives assault tries to rebuild a life in the country of her adoption but finally has to escape by sea to reach South Africa. Today thanks to western help Mocambique is recovering and this story is a strong reminder of the trauma which her people had to endure under communist rule. “Fleischer has opted to tell Ines’s story in the first person a notoriously difficult feat for a man but his writing is spare restrained almost skeletal and the narrative voice rings true. His authorial voice is a whisper rather than a shout and all the more powerful for that. Altogether this is a novel of integrity and eminent readability.” Frances Coburn The Star Johannesburg.