Mia Couto, Author, David Brookshaw, Translator ; trans. from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw. Serpent's Tail $14.95 (213p) ISBN 978-1-85242-897-6
Heralded as one of the 12 best African books of the 20th century by the Zimbabwe International Book Fair, Couto's first novel, a colorfully harsh portrayal of war-torn Mozambique, is as seductive in detail as it is loaded with symbolism. Two...
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Mia Couto, Author, David Brookshaw, Translator Serpent's Tail $15 (150p) ISBN 978-1-85242-729-0
Death seeps its wily way into every corner of the living world in this lyrical novel by Mozambican writer Mia Couto. At the start of Under the Frangipani, the narrator, a dead man, is assigned to occupy the body of a police inspector who is ...
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Mia Couto, trans. from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (208p) ISBN 978-0-374-12923-1
Inspired by real events experienced by prolific author Couto (The Tuner of Silences), this lyrical novel is about the many facets of fear that haunt the people in the tiny village of Kulumani, deep in the bush of Mozambique. There has been a rash of
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Mia Couto, trans. from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374292270
Couto’s excellent novel, the first in a trilogy, chronicles the territorial power struggles of 1890s southern Mozambique, alternating between the voices of Imani, a 15-year-old living in the village of Nkokolani, and Portuguese sergeant Germano de...
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Mia Couto, trans. from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-25689-0
The modest second entry in Couto’s Sands of the Emperor trilogy (after Woman of the Ashes) picks up with the Portuguese Sgt. Germano de Melo nursing severely injured hands in late 1890s Mozambique. Germano boats up the River Inharrime with his...
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Mia Couto, trans. from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-60553-7
Couto’s satisfying conclusion to his Sands of the Emperor trilogy (after The Sword and the Spear) finds 15-year-old series protagonist Imani pregnant and alone, and about to set sail with the Portuguese army to transport the recently captured king...
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Mia Couto, trans. from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw, with Eric M.B. Becker. Biblioasis, $22.95 trade paper (440p) ISBN 978-1-7719-6388-6
Mozambican writer Couto (Woman of the Ashes) draws on African proverbs for a captivating collection of 64 brief, aphoristic stories, set mostly in Mozambique. In “The Fire,” an old man decides to dig a grave for his devoted, healthy wife, while he...
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