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Africa for the first time in eleven years. The novel charts the developing relationship between the narrator and her grandfather over the course of about a year, and how it changes her relationship with her mother (prone to grumpiness, consumerism, and sometimes disinclined to show Emma Soffía the affection that she feels), her father (who is a seaman and therefore absent for long stretches of time), and with herself. Afi Afríka is given to mediation, offering spiritual insights and experiences, and to finding pastimes for his granddaughter which entertain her yet help her to develop patience and inner piece. The novel closes with Afi Afríka's death, Catholic funeral, and his bequest to Emma Soffía of his elegant home near
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