The green house

The Green House for Mario Vargas Bossa, 528 pages, Publisher: Al-Jamal Publications, Type: Paperback, Normal Cover. Publisher's note: People in Beira talked a lot about the primitive Green House, that original dwelling which no one now knows exactly how it really was, nor the correct details of its history. Those who are still alive from that era, and they are very few, became confused and contradictory, mixing what they saw and heard with their own fabrications. The knowledgeable ones have reached old age, and their silence is a strong insistence that makes it pointless to interrogate them; anyway, the original house no longer exists. The Mangatchian stories say that the Green House was very large, the largest buildings of that time, and it had many colorful lamps hanging from its windows, and its lights were dazzling and stained the surrounding sand, and they even lit the bridge. But its main feature was the music, which exploded at its scheduled time inside at sunset and continued all night.