Mia Couto
Author
Series
Sands of the emperor volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Southern Mozambique, 1894. Sergeant Germano de Melo is posted to the village of Nkokolani to oversee the Portuguese conquest of territory claimed by Ngungunyane, the last of the leaders of the state of Gaza, the second-largest empire led by an African. Ngungunyane has raised an army to resist colonial rule and with his warriors is slowly approaching the border village. Desperate for help, Germano enlists Imani, a fifteen-year-old girl, to act as his...
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Mia Couto, winner of the Neustadt International Prize, and a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, first became famous as a writer of enchanting short stories. In Rain and Other Stories, one of his most appealing collections, here available in English for the first time, the borders that separate people melt as a poor African country emerges from sixteen years of civil war and assumes its identity as an independent nation. In these playful,...
Author
Series
Biblioasis international translation volume no. 33
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Covering the entire arc of Couto's career, this collection displays the Mozambican author's inventiveness, sensitivity, and social range with greater richness than any previous collection, including early stories that reflect the harshness of life under Portuguese colonialism; magical tales of rural Africa; and contemporary fables of the slipperiness of race and gender, environmental disaster and the clash between the countryside and the city. The...
Author
Series
Sands of the emperor volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"While Germano is left behind in Africa, serving with the Portuguese military, Imani has been enlisted to act as the interpreter to the imprisoned emperor of Gaza, Ngungunyane, on the long voyage to Lisbon. For Ngungunyane and his seven wives, it will be a journey of no return. Imani's will come only after a decade-long odyssey through the Portuguese empire at the beginning of the twentieth century."--
Author
Series
Sands of the emperor volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
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