'Couto's stories counter fear of barrenness, pinpointing kernels of possibility.Becker's intricate translation uses wonderful almost-words to recreate Couto's illusory and playful ncoctions precise enough to capture the writing's mythical, trancelike quality.' Publisher: Biblioasis ISBN: 9781771962667 Number of pages: 168 Dimensions: 177 x 127 mm MEDIA REVIEWS

Style='text-align: left '>Winner of the Camoes Prize for Literature, 2013Ī Vanity Fair Must-Read Book From Around The World for Winter 2019 Style='text-align: left '>Winner of the Neustadt Prize for Literature, 2014 Style='text-align: left '>Finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize 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. 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. Where man remains, a seed, too, survives, a dream to inseminate time. After the war, I thought all that was left was ashes, hollow ruins.

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