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Availability:In StockContributor:Mia CoutoPublish date:2005-05-01Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Serpent's TailISBN-13:9781852428136ISBN-10:1852428139UPC:9781852428136Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:7.60 x 5.10 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCXQJGTYX3

"A wonderful mix of magical realism and wordplay that has a similar tone to M?rquez at his best. Couto writes in an idiom all his own that feels authentically African."--Ink

In Mozambique after the end of the civil war, local soldiers have been unaccountably blown up. When it begins to happen to UN peacekeepers, a high-level delegation visits the village of Tizangara to initiate an investigation. As the UN investigation unfolds, Mia Couto brilliantly shows how the perceptions of events both inside and outside the country are altered when interpreted from an African perspective.

Mia Couto was born in 1955 in Mozambique and is the most prominent Portuguese-speaking African writer. He now lives in Maputo, where he manages the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Serpent's TailISBN-13:9781852428136ISBN-10:1852428139UPC:9781852428136Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:7.60 x 5.10 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCXQJGTYX3
Mia Couto was born in 1955 in Mozambique and is the most prominent writer in Portuguese-speaking Africa. He has been active as a journalist and during the revolutionary struggle headed the AIM news agency. He now lives in Maputo where he works as an environmental biologist and runs the Mozambique part of the Kruger National Park.
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