The Return of the Water Spirit

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.

• Author
• Pepetela

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 102

• Publisher
• Heinemann Educational Books

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780435912109

• Settings
• Luada

• Genres
• africa, angola, fiction, contemporary, war, novella

• Release date
• 2002