The Return of the Water Spirit
"'Convent morality's dead and gone. We're now living under a market economy'. In this way Carmina Evangelista, a member of Angola's ruling elite, justifies abandoning the socialist principles of her youth in favour of rampant capitalism." "While the war-torn former colony collapses under the pressures of corruption and rivalry, buildings in Kinaxixi Square in the city of Luanda baffle the country's engineers as they fall down one by one. Many describe this mysterious process, known as Luanda Syndrome, as God's punishment of a degenerate society. But Joao Evangelista comes to believe that the explanation lies in a built-over lagoon, once home to a water spirit which has returned to reclaim the land." --Book Jacket.