Sivumäärä: 112 sivua Asu: Pehmeäkantinen kirja Julkaisuvuosi: 2002, 01.07.2002 (lisätietoa) Kieli: Englanti
Whilst Pepetela's novel is set during the 1980s the novel begins 300 years earlier when a slave was beheaded for having relations with his master's daughter. This novel is a scathing critique of the Angolan ruling elite and their fall from socialist grace.