I- Synopsis

The Memory Path, Draft Outline

'Promotional' Blurb

• Author’s note

• Prelude

• Postscript 

• Epilogue

Perspective: descriptive, factual, and poetic

Focus: Mozambique in its Southern Africa setting, with reminiscence from elsewhere (namely Portugal, Oxford, Sweden)

Narrative, genre and timeframe: Storytelling, Memoir, 50 years (1965-2015)

Part 1: Dusk at Dawn (1965-1985)

General background: Childhood reminiscence, from hope to disillusion (leading up to independence and its outcomes); the age of uncertainty, when identity and fate were challenged by colonial and post-colonial warfare; reflection on crimes in the name of change, progress and ‘revolution’; civil war and post-colonial kleptocracy.                   

Written stories: 

1. The Unspoken Secret

2. It Was the Best of Times

3. Rolling the Dice

4. The Pigeon-Hole

5. The Great Flood

6. Atlas, Fantasy and Fate

7. Sawdust

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Part 2: The Spiderweb (1985-1995), On hold

Rebuilding the parts: exile, questioning the past (personal and intellectual: from archaeology to cultural history)

Part 3: Evening Came, and Then Morning (1995-2015), On hold

Seeing the Part in the Whole: The age of environmental emergency