Na Berma De Nenhuma Estrada
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Na Berma De Nenhuma Estrada
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Author : Mia Couto
language : pt-BR
Publisher: Leya
Release Date : 2022-04-28
Na Berma De Nenhuma Estrada written by Mia Couto and has been published by Leya this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-28 with Fiction categories.
"Mia Couto seleccionou, de entre publicação dispersa por jornais e revistas ao longo de anos bem recentes, estes trinta e oito textos que agrupou sob o título Na Berma de Nenhuma Estrada e outros contos. Cada novo encontro com a sua escrita significa uma viagem a que não apetece pôr termo. A intensidade das personagens, a multiplicidade de registos em que as várias tramas ocorrem, o universo do fantástico e do sobrenatural coexistindo em perfeita sintonia com o dia-a-dia da tradição, da cultura e da vivência experienciadas, a capacidade de efabulação, a oralidade que emana da palavra escrita transformando-a em puro som, são portos a que acostamos e que nunca desvendamos por completo. Façamos escala em «Fosforescências», «O último ponto cardeal», «O fazedor de luzes», «Os amores de Alminha», «Os gatos voadores»; tomemos o rumo de «As cartas», «O escrevido», «Ave e nave»; voguemos ao sabor de «A multiplicação dos filhos», «As lágrimas de Diamantina», «O amante do comandante»; deixemos que as ondas nos levem até «Rosita»; e mergulhemos profundamente nas águas, agitadas às vezes, tranquilas outras, do imaginário inesgotável do autor de Na Berma de Nenhuma Estrada e outros contos."
Na Berma De Nenhuma Estrada E Outros Contos
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Author : Mia Couto
language : pt-BR
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Na Berma De Nenhuma Estrada E Outros Contos written by Mia Couto and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Mozambican fiction (Portuguese) categories.
Na Berma De Nenhuma Estrada E Outros Contos
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Author : Mia Couto
language : pt-BR
Publisher:
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Every Man Is A Race
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Author : Mia Couto
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann
Release Date : 1994
Every Man Is A Race written by Mia Couto and has been published by Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
'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.
Confession Of The Lioness
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Author : Mia Couto
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2015-07-14
Confession Of The Lioness written by Mia Couto and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-14 with Fiction categories.
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.
A Postmodern Nationalist
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Author : Phillip Rothwell
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2004
A Postmodern Nationalist written by Phillip Rothwell and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
"This is the first book in the English language devoted to the study of the work of Mozambique's leading contemporary author, Mia Couto. Couto's fiction is riddled by a central paradox - it forges a distinct postmodern national identity for a country historically plagued by repeated and detrimental interference from abroad. Phillip Rothwell argues that Couto is a writer who eschews and reinforces the national frontier. In fact, Couto produces a cultural phenomenon that is markedly Mozambican by corrupting aspects of the European legacy Portugal left on the African continent, fusing this distortion with a corrupted version of African heritage, and demarcating literary boundaries through fluidity." "The book details Couto's life and literary trajectory, and interprets essential aspects of Mozambican political and cultural history before undertaking a range of analyses of his work. The postmodern relativization of the concept of a unitary truth furnishes the springboard for an interrogation of what "truth" has meant to Mozambique as exemplified in Couto's texts. The paradoxes inherent in the politics of orthography are scrutinized in Couto's universe to illustrate the aporia prevalent in an atavistic reclaiming of a pre-Portuguese system of writing. Rothwell then engages with the moral meaning of orality and literacy in the tradition Couto both defies and defines, to demonstrate Couto's simultaneous disavowal of misographic and graphophile epistemologies. The manners in which Couto breaches the frontier between the conscious and unconscious realms and blurs gender distinctions are read alongside traditional delineations in order to understand the extent to which Couto's message is radically political. Rothwell concludes with a reading of one of Couto's most potent works in which, through an empowering attack on the United Nations' invasion of Mozambique, Couto enjoins his fellow nationals to begin to resist the postmodern age." "Couto's ambivalent use of the tropes of postmodernism are discussed throughout the book, particularly the way in which it has evolved into a political agenda that is fiercely Mozambican. Rothwell demonstrates Couto's reevaluation of Grand Narratives and shows how, in the case of the Mozambican culture of today, postmodernism has become the only Grand Narrative left worth critiquing." "Rothwell explores a broad cross-section of Couto's literary output, from his early short stories to his more recent novels. He places these within the context of a Mozambican and wider lusophone cultural backdrop, providing essential reading and source of reference for all interested in contemporary Portuguese, African, and world literatures."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Sea Loves Me
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Author : Mia Couto
language : en
Publisher: Biblioasis
Release Date : 2021-02-23
Sea Loves Me written by Mia Couto and has been published by Biblioasis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-23 with Fiction categories.
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.
Sleepwalking Land
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Author : Mia Couto
language : en
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
Release Date : 2006
Sleepwalking Land written by Mia Couto and has been published by Juta and Company Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
Mia Couto's first novel, judged one of the twelve best African books of the 20th century
The Sword And The Spear
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Author : Mia Couto
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2020-09-08
The Sword And The Spear written by Mia Couto and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-08 with Fiction categories.
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.
The Whistler
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Author : Ondjaki
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Whistler written by Ondjaki and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
From Angola, a country riddled with civil war and it' s aftereffects for the last 30 years, comes a surprising story of hope, passion, and magical realism from a groundbreaking, young African novelist. A young man arrives at the church of a small African village and starts whistling so beautifully that the priest is left in tears. As his weeklong stay continues, the whistler finds himself affected by the colorful inhabitants of the village as they all become bewitched and surrender to the moods of his melodies.