Under the name of Aruângua, the author recollects her youth in Mozambique throw a collection of poems. In the words of Silva Rocha, “the poet Aruângua walks the transforming path of art, of art in words and feelings, of poetry. Bittersweet Memories of the Exile is an accurate title. Memories of the poet rise to the surface and, together with those, rise her courage, her honesty, her will to see, feel, understand and, above all, write. […] The reader is invited to accompany her in her journey, her overseas saga, her inter-continental experience with Mother Africa, through South America, the sensitive seen-unseen bridge between Mozambique and Brazil. […] Her virtual departures and returns; her carnal and spiritual finds and losses, her dreams – yes, she shares her dreams –, her experiences with the usage of a poetic idiom and her recurring mixing of the Portuguese with idioms of her motherland”.