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The Blind Fisherman

By: Mia Couto

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The Blind Fisherman is a compilation of Mia Couto's early short stories - as first presented to the English-speaking world in his two collections Voices Made Night (1990) and Every Man is a Race (1994). Originally written in Portuguese, it was in these collections that Mia Couto first announced himself as a writer of international importance, constructing stories that blended the unique history of Mozambique with a magic realism that was both inspired by and transcendent of the legacy of Portuguese colonialism and the subsequent civil war.

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0143527797

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Confession of the Lioness

A Novel

By: Mia Couto

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Confession of the Lioness

A Novel

By: Mia Couto

A dark, poetic mystery about the women of the remote village of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, Mia Couto's Confession of the Lioness reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting the women who live there. Mariamar, a woman whose sister was killed in a lioness attack, finds her life thrown into chaos when the outsider Archangel Bullseye, the marksman hired to kill the lionesses, arrives at the request of the village elders. Mariamar's father imprisons her in her home, where she relives painful memories of past abuse and hopes to be rescued by Archangel. Meanwhile, Archangel tracks the lionesses in the wilderness, but when he begins to suspect there is more to them than meets the eye, he starts to lose control of his hands. The hunt grows more dangerous, until it's no safer inside Kulumani than outside it. As the men of Kulumani feel increasingly threatened by the outsider, the forces of modernity upon their traditional culture, and the danger of their animal predators closing in, it becomes clear the lionesses might not be real lionesses at all but spirits conjured by the ancient witchcraft of the women themselves. Both a riveting mystery and a poignant examination of women's oppression, Confession of the Lioness explores the confrontation between the modern world and ancient traditions to produce an atmospheric, gripping novel.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374710953

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9780374710958

The Tuner of Silences

By: Mia Couto

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The Tuner of Silences

By: Mia Couto

Eleven when I saw a woman for the first time, I was seized by such surprise I burst into tears.

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Biblioasis

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1926845951

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Pensativities

Selected Essays

By: Mia Couto

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Pensativities

Selected Essays

By: Mia Couto

One of the greatest living writers in the Portuguese language."—Philip Graham, The Millions What would Barack Obama's 2004 campaign have looked like if it unfolded in an African nation? What does it mean to be an African writer today? How do writers and poets from all continents teach us to cross the sertão, the savannah, the barren places where we're forced to walk within ourselves? Bringing together the best pieces from his previously untranslated nonfiction collections, alongside new material presented here for the first time in any language, Pensativities offers English readers a taste of Mia Couto as essayist, lecturer, and journalist—with essays on cosmopolitanism, poverty, culture gaps, conservation, and more.

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Biblioasis

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177196006X

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Every Man is a Race

By: Mia Couto

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Every Man is a Race

By: Mia Couto

A man's story is always badly told. That's because a person never stops being born. Nobody leads one sole life, we are all multiplied into different and ever-changeable men.' So it is with all the stories in this collection, which never make a definitive judgement on the individual life, but only suggest its possibilities. Set in Mozambique, the stories reflect the legacy of Portuguese colonialism and the tragedy of the subsequent civil war. Mia Couto's first collection, Voices Made Night, was described as 'lyrical', 'magical' and 'compassionate' by the reviewers, who were unanimous in identifying a significant new talent from the continent. This volume confirms that judgement.

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Heinemann

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0435909827

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9780435909826

Rain

And Other Stories

By: Mia Couto

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Rain

And Other Stories

By: Mia Couto

A new translation of brilliant stories by Man Booker-finalist and author of Confession of the Lioness.

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1771962666

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Confession of the Lioness

By: Mia Couto

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Confession of the Lioness

By: Mia Couto

Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2017 A finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize My sister Silência was the most recent victim of the lions, which have been tormenting our village for some weeks now... When Mariamar Mpepe's sister is killed by lions, her father imprisons her at home. With only the ghost of her sister for company, she dreams of escape, and of the hunter who abandoned her years before. I'm the last of the hunters. And this is my last hunt. Archangel Bullseye, born into a long line of marksmen, is summoned back to Kulumani. But as he tracks the lions in the surrounding wilderness, his suspicions grow - that the darkest threats lie not outside the village, but at its very heart. What was happening was what always happened: The lions were coming back... Set in a forgotten corner of East Africa haunted by superstition, tradition and the shades of civil war, this is a struggle that blurs the savagery of nature, and the savagery of man.

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Harvill Secker

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1787301311

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Africa. Ediz. italiana, spagnola e portoghese

By: Sebastião Salgado,Mia Couto

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Africa. Ediz. italiana, spagnola e portoghese

By: Sebastião Salgado,Mia Couto

Sebastião Salgado's stark black-and-white images of Africa come together in this remarkable photographic collection, shot over a period of 30 years. These images tell the tale of a continent ravaged by troubles but immensely rich in history and culture. With humility and insight, Salgado draws us into multiple and diverse regions surviving in...

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3822856223

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9783822856222

Pensativities

Selected Essays

By: Mia Couto

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Selected Essays

By: Mia Couto

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Imagine Africa

Volume 2

By: Mia Couto,Scholastique Mukasonga,Paulina Chiziane,Cedric Nunn,David Brookshaw

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Imagine Africa

Volume 2

By: Mia Couto,Scholastique Mukasonga,Paulina Chiziane,Cedric Nunn,David Brookshaw

Imagine Africa and its theme of "Revolution" is introduced by Georges Lory who opens the collection with his essay, "Poets to your quills, Africa is taking off". Through a collage of poems, essays, fiction, and visual art, Imagine Africa gives us a glimpse of a kaleidoscopic contemporary Africa.

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Archipelago

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0914671189

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Rain

And Other Stories

By: Mia Couto

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Rain

And Other Stories

By: Mia Couto

After the war, I thought all that was left was ashes, hollow ruins . . . Today, I know that’s not true. Where man remains, a seed, too, survives, a dream to inseminate time. Published in the aftermath of Mozambique’s bloody civil war, Mia Couto’s third collection seeks out the places violence could not reach, the places where, the author writes, “every man is the same: pretending he’s here, dreaming of going away, and plotting his return.” Shifting masterfully between forms—creation tale to meditation, playful comedy to magical twist—these stories grapple with questions of what’s been lost and what can be reclaimed, what future exists for a country that broke the yoke of colonialism only to descend into internecine war, what is Mozambican and what is Mozambique. Following fishermen and fortune-tellers, widows and drunks, and one errant hippopotamus, this new translation of stories by the Man Booker-listed author of Confession of the Lioness rediscovers possibility and what it means to be reborn. style="text-align: left;">Finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize style="text-align: left;">Winner of the Neustadt Prize for Literature, 2014 style="text-align: left;">Winner of the Camões Prize for Literature, 2013 A Vanity Fair Must-Read Book From Around The World for Winter 2019 A Financial Times Summer Book of 2019

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1771962674

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The Blind Fisherman

By: Mia Couto

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The Blind Fisherman

By: Mia Couto

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Woman of the Ashes

A Novel

By: Mia Couto

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Woman of the Ashes

A Novel

By: Mia Couto

The first in a trilogy about the last emperor of southern Mozambique by one of Africa’s most important writers 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 interpreter. She belongs to the VaChopi tribe, one of the few who dared side with the Portuguese. But while one of her brothers fights for the Crown of Portugal, the other has chosen the African emperor. Standing astride two kingdoms, Imani is drawn to Germano, just as he is drawn to her. But she knows that in a country haunted by violence, the only way out for a woman is to go unnoticed, as if made of shadows or ashes. Alternating between the voices of Imani and Germano, Mia Couto’s Woman of the Ashes combines vivid folkloric prose with extensive historical research to give a spellbinding and unsettling account of war-torn Mozambique at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Confession of the Lioness

A Novel

By: Mia Couto

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Confession of the Lioness

A Novel

By: Mia Couto

A dark, poetic mystery about the women of the remote village of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, Mia Couto's "Confession of the Lioness" reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting the women who live there

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Macmillan

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0374129231

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The Tuner of Silences

By: Mia Couto

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The Tuner of Silences

By: Mia Couto

Eleven when I saw a woman for the first time, I was seized by such surprise I burst into tears.

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Every Man is a Race

By: Mia Couto

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Every Man is a Race

By: Mia Couto

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The Sword and the Spear

A Novel

By: Mia Couto

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The Sword and the Spear

A Novel

By: Mia Couto

The second novel in the exhilarating Sands of the Emperor trilogy, following the Man Booker International Prize finalist Woman of the Ashes Mozambique, 1895. After an attack on his quarters, the defeated Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo needs to be taken to the hospital. The only one within reach is along the river Inhambane, so his lover Imani undertakes an arduous rescue mission, accompanied by her father and brother. Meanwhile, war rages between the Portuguese occupiers and Ngungunyane’s warriors—battles waged with sword and spear, until the arrival of a devastating new weapon destined to secure European domination. Germano wants to start a new life with Imani, but the Portuguese military has other plans for the injured soldier. And Imani's father has his own plan for his daughter’s future: as one of Ngungunyane's wives, she would be close enough to the tyrant to avenge the destruction of their village. With elegance and compassion, Mia Couto's The Sword and the Spear illustrates the futility of war and the porous boundaries between apparently foreign cultures—boundaries of which entire societies, but also friends and lovers, conceive as simultaneously insuperable and in decline.

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0374719705

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Woman of the Ashes

A Novel

By: Mia Couto

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A Novel

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0374292272

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Sea Loves Me

Selected Stories

By: Mia Couto

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Sea Loves Me

Selected Stories

By: Mia Couto

An NPR Best Book of 2021 New and selected fiction, over half in English for the first time, from the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize. Known internationally for his novels, Neustadt Prize-winner Mia Couto first became famous for his short stories. Sea Loves Me includes sixty-four of his best, thirty-six of which appear in English for the first time. 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—from early stories that reflect the harshness of life under Portuguese colonialism; to magical tales of rural Africa; to contemporary fables of the fluidity of race and gender, environmental disaster, and the clash between the countryside and the city. The title novella, long acclaimed as one of Couto's best works but never before available in English, caps this collection with the lyrical story of a search for a lost father that leads unexpectedly to love.

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1771963891

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Imagine Africa

Volume 2

By: Mia Couto,Scholastique Mukasonga,Paulina Chiziane,Cedric Nunn,David Brookshaw

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Imagine Africa

Volume 2

By: Mia Couto,Scholastique Mukasonga,Paulina Chiziane,Cedric Nunn,David Brookshaw

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Sea Loves Me

Selected Stories

By: Mia Couto

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Selected Stories

By: Mia Couto

New and selected fiction, over half in English for the first time, from the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize.

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Biblioasis International Trans

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1771963883

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Teach Me Everything - 1

By: Mia Carre

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Teach Me Everything - 1

By: Mia Carre

Elle déteste l’imprévu, il est incontrôlable. *** – Je peux déboutonner ton chemisier ? m’enquiers-je contre ses lèvres. Elle acquiesce timidement. Je défais un premier bouton, la poitrine de Neila se soulève. J’essaie d’aller doucement pour ne pas l’effrayer alors que je n’ai qu’une envie : arracher ce fichu chemisier et faire voler les boutons dans toute la pièce. Mes doigts tremblent comme ceux d’un novice. Parvenu au bout de mes efforts, je n’écarte pas les pans de tissu pour dévoiler sa poitrine, je glisse simplement mes mains sous l’étoffe et je caresse sa peau brûlante avant de reprendre possession de ses lèvres. J’effleure son dos, ses omoplates, la presse contre moi pendant que je dévore sa bouche, que je provoque sa langue de la mienne. Mes doigts continuent d’explorer son corps couvert, sa taille, ses hanches, son ventre plat et ferme qui se contracte davantage encore à mon toucher. Je plaque mes paumes autour de son nombril, me détache légèrement d’elle, colle mon front au sien. Tu vas me rendre fou, si fou, Neila… Je te veux tellement, je ne sais même pas pourquoi ! Et ton frère va me tuer ! Je me garde bien de dire tout ceci à voix haute au risque de l’effrayer et de la voir s’enfuir sans autre forme de procès. Et maintenant que j’embrasse sa bouche, que je découvre son corps, j’ai tellement, mais tellement envie de plus. – Je peux t’enlever ton chemisier ? murmuré-je entre deux baisers dans son cou. – Je ne sais pas, hésite-t-elle en se blottissant contre moi. Tu pourrais enlever ta chemise d’abord ? – Je peux… Mieux : tu peux. Elle se fige et je me détache d’elle à contrecœur. – Déshabille-moi, lui dis-je tout bas. *** Quand Ash découvre la « petite sœur » de Ben, son meilleur ami, il est sous le choc. Alors qu’il imaginait une gamine de 10 ans avec des couettes, il est face à une jeune femme troublante. Mais pourquoi s’habille-t-elle comme une vieille fille ? Et pourquoi cet air coincé ? Qu’a-t-elle à cacher ? De quoi se protège-t-elle ? Ash serait bien tenté de s’occuper d’elle et de lui apprendre les plaisirs de la vie, mais il ne peut pas… Ben lui a bien répété cent fois : « Ne touche pas à ma petite sœur, Ash, ou je te tue ! » OK… Mais comment résister ? *** Teach Me Everything, de Mia Carre, volume 1 sur 4.

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