#552
Title: The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo
Author: Germano Almeida
Translator: Sheila Glaser
Publisher: New Directions
Year: 2004
Country: Cape Verde
152 pages
This was a fast, enjoyable book, a very funny novel whose absent protagonist leaves a will that runs to hundreds of pages. Embedded in the will and other characters' associations to it or tangents from it is the dead man's apologia pro vita sua. While sometimes he seems to be on the level, at other times there is sufficient evidence that he is engaged in image management and has spun events as best he can, perhaps even disguising his real intentions from himself.
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