Mia Couto
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Portuguese
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[...] Os nossos jovens colegas trabalhavam no mato, dormindo em tendas de campanha e circulando a pé entre as aldeias. Eles constituíam um alvo fácil para os felinos. Era urgente enviar caçadores que os protegessem. Os caçadores passaram por dois meses de frustração e terror, acudindo a diários pedidos de socorro até conseguirem matar os leões assassinos. Mas não foram apenas essas dificuldades que enfrentaram. De forma permanente lhes
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Biblioasis international translation volume no. 25
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English
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"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,...
3) Jesusalém
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Caminho
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Portuguese
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Jesusalém é seguramente a mais madura e mais conseguida obra de um escritor em plena posse das suas capacidades criativas. Aliando uma narrativa a um tempo complexa e aliciante ao seu estilo poético tão pessoal, Mia Couto confirma o lugar cimeiro de que goza nas literaturas de língua portuguesa. A vida é demasiado preciosa para ser esbanjada num mundo desencantado, diz um dos protagonistas deste romance. A prosa mágica do escritor moçambicano
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English
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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...
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Publisher
Caminho
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Portuguese
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Primeiro romance do moçambicano Mia Couto, já bem conhecido e apreciado pelo público português, Terra Sonâmbula tem como pano de fundo os recentes tempos de guerra em Moçambique, da qual traça um quadro de um realismo forte e brutal. Dentro deste cenário de pesadelo movimentam-se personagens de uma profunda humanidade, por vezes com uma dimensão mágica e mítica, todos vagueando pela terra destroçada, entre o desespero mais pungente e uma...
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Español
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En la costa del Océano Índico, Zeca Perpetuo, un pescador entrado en años, es vecino de Dona Luarmina, una mujer también mayor. Amigos, vecinos decentes, van rompiendo la distancia hasta que Zeca descubre en un descuido quién es Luarmina. A partir de ahí se desencadena un hilo de flashbacks que cambia todo. Los recuerdos no son recíprocos, por supuesto, pero sí implican un viaje a la infancia y al deseo.
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Caminho
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Portuguese
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Inquirido sobre a sua raça, respondeu: - A minha raça sou eu, João Passarinheiro. Convidado a explicar-se, acrescentou: - Minha raça sou eu mesmo. A pessoa é uma humanidade individual. Cada homem é uma raça, senhor polícia. (Extracto das declarações do vendedor de pássaros)
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English
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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...
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English
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A soldier's wife struggles to reconnect with her daughter after her husband is killed overseas. A baby abandoned at the rectory door inflames a town with gossip. A dog is shot. A heart attack survivor perplexes his family with a newfound sense of religious euphoria, while a nursing home volunteer struggles with the bad behaviour of one of her veteran patients. Compassionate, clear-eyed, probing grief and insularity, Colette Maitland's short fiction...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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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...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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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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Series
Areias do imperador volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The third volume of a historical trilogy from the noted Mozambican author"--
15) Hui jin nü ren
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Series
Publisher
Zhong xin chu ban ji tuan gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
中文
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Porto Editora
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"A escrita encantatória de Valter Hugo Mãe chega ao conto como uma delicadíssima forma de inclusão. Estes contos são para todas as idades e são feitos de uma esperança profunda. Entre a confiança e o receio, cães e lobos são apenas um símbolo para a ansiedade perante a vida e a fundamental aprendizagem de valores e da capacidade de amar. Entre a confiança e o receio estabelecemos as entregas e a prudência de que precisamos para construir...
