Debezezi

by Alex Fan Moniz

Initially inspired by South Africa's "Hole on the Wall" Pondoland legend and other beliefs, this epic story with many twists leaves the doors open to imagination in the end.
Whilst rooted in ancient Khoisan, Xhosa and Zulu historical mythology, spirituality and cultures, this story explores an imaginary underwater world where time and space don't follow the same order of our world. All is different, including its inhabitants.
This fictional tale is written in the easy-to-read story-telling way, but is not a children's story (there is a previous, simplified short-story version with this title).
This is ultimately a fantasy tale about love, prejudice, conflict, life choices and courage. A metaphor for ever-present social issues, universal to mankind.

88 pages, Hardcover

First published May 16, 2013

About the author

Alex Fan Moniz is a British poet, writer, photographer and lyricist.

Born in Portugal, he has spent his lifetime between the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, South Africa and periods in Romania, Italy, Brazil, Denmark, India, China and other countries. He studied Humanities at the University of London and Coimbra and MA Creative Writing at ARU, Cambridge. He is fluent in several European languages.
In 1992, one of his poems As Cinzas (The Ashes) was selected by the Academia de Coimbra (one of the world's oldest universities) at literary initiative, Indiferença for young creative talents.
Photographic works featured at the annual event Indaba Durban Tourism (South Africa) 2011, ARBI project, The University of Sydney/Sydney Medical School (Australia) 2012.

His first book Colours of South Africa was published in 2013.
Journeys on the Underground and Beyond (Series I), his second book, was published in 2014.
Debezezi and the Sea Prince is his third book, published in 2015.
Journeys on the Underground and Beyond (Series II), published in 2015 is a bilingual English-Portuguese publication.
Die Skree van Stilte, published in 2015 is an Afrikaans translated collection of poems from previous works with some originals.
vex, published in 2017 is an existentialist book of poems where the author continues with his unconventional approach to poetry in both structure, form, language and subjects. This book has a touch of the Orient and Australia.