This author of The Last Flight of the Flamingo and Under the Frangipani is better known for a novel in which the search for Farida's son Gaspar is described in the notebooks of Kindzu, which are found by an old man and a boy who are hiding in a burned-out bus to escape the ongoing civil war.
In a novel by this author, a tree declares that it is the last tree in the world and whoever cuts it down will turn from a woman to a man or a man to a woman, right after a mampfana bird explodes. One of his novels opens by describing a severed penis found on the road outside Tizangara, and deals with Massimo Risi's investigation of the mysterious explosions of UN soldiers. He also wrote about a crime investigated by Izidine Naita in a fort which has been turned into an asylum for old people. This author of The Last Flight of the Flamingo and Under the Frangipani is better known for a novel in which the search for Farida's son Gaspar is described in the notebooks of Kindzu, which are found by an old man and a boy who are hiding in a burned-out bus to escape the ongoing civil war. For 10 points, name this Mozambican author of Sleepwalking Land.
In a novel by this author, a tree declares that it is the last tree in the world and whoever cuts it down will turn from a woman to a man or a man to a woman, right after a mampfana bird explodes.
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