Abstract
The novel by Lidia Jorge, The Murmuring Coast (1988), is divided into two parts: the first, entitled "The locusts", is written in third person and displays the chronological account of events in the wedding party of Evita and Louis, which took place in the Hotel Stella Maris, in Beira, Mozambique, in the middle of colonial war. In the second part of the book, written in first person, Eva …