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  • Confession of the Lioness

    A Novel

    by Mia Couto, David Brookshaw ...
    Translated by David Brookshaw ...
    A dark, poetic mystery about the women of the remote village of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt themTold 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 ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Woman of the Ashes

    A Novel

    by Mia Couto ...
    Translated by David Brookshaw ...
    Series Book 1 - Sands of the Emperor
    The first in a trilogy about the last emperor of southern Mozambique by one of Africa's most important writersSouthern 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sea Loves Me

    Selected Stories

    by Mia Couto ...
    Series series Biblioasis International Translation Series
    An NPR Best Book of 2021New 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 ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Drinker of Horizons

    A Novel

    by Mia Couto ...
    Translated by David Brookshaw ...
    Series Book 3 - Sands of the Emperor
    Longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary AwardThe scintillating conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prize– winning Sands of the Emperor trilogy."[Couto's] life has been woven into the history of the nation, and he has become the foremost chronicler of Mozambique's antiheroes: its women, its peasants, even its dead." —Jacob Judah, The New York TimesIn T... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Cartographer of Absences

    A Novel

    by Mia Couto ...
    Translated by David Brookshaw ...
    “Revelatory . . . An aching, dreamlike immersion.” —Carl Hoffman, The Washington Post“An intensely powerful work about revolution, compromise, and long-buried secrets . . . A haunting, compelling book.” —Tobias Carroll, Words Without BordersAn atmospheric novel about a father and son in the waning days of colonial Mozambique by the winner of the 2025 PEN/Nabokov AwardDiogo Santiago is a celebrated ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Confession of the Lioness

    by Mia Couto ...
    Narrated by Kevin Kenerly, Lisa Reneé Pitts ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 36 min

    Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, Mia Couto’s Confession of the Lioness reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, a village whose traditions are threatened when ghost-like 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 ... Read more

    $13.95 USD

  • Audiobook

    Woman of the Ashes

    by Mia Couto ...
    Narrated by Joel Richards, Bahni Turpin ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 40 min

    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 ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Blind Fisherman

    by Mia Couto ...
    The Blind Fisherman is a compilation of Mia Couto's early short stories - as first presented to the English-speaking world in his two collections Voices Made Night (1990) and Every Man is a Race (1994). Originally written in Portuguese, it was in these collections that Mia Couto first announced himself as a writer of international importance, constructing stories that blended the unique history of ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Rain

    And Other Stories

    by Mia Couto ...
    Translated by Eric M.B. Becker ...
    After the war, I thought all that was left was ashes, hollow ruins . . . Today, I know that’s not true. Where man remains, a seed, too, survives, a dream to inseminate time.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, ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

  • Imagine Africa

    by Mia Couto, Scholastique Mukasonga, Paulina Chiziane, Cedric Nunn, David Brookshaw ...
    Series Book 2 - Pirogue
    Imagine Africa and its theme of "Revolution" is introduced by Georges Lory who opens the collection with his essay, "Poets to your quills, Africa is taking off". Through a collage of poems, essays, fiction, and visual art, Imagine Africa gives us a glimpse of a kaleidoscopic contemporary Africa. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Tuner of Silences

    by Mia Couto ...
    Translated by David Brookshaw ...
    Series Book 9 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
    A RADIO FRANCE-CULTURE/TÉLÉRAMA BEST WORK OF FICTIONBY THE WINNER OF THE 2013 CAMÕES PRIZEAND THE WINNER OF THE 2014 NEUSTADT PRIZE“Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa.""—Doris Lessing“By meshing the richness of African beliefs . . . into the Western framework of the novel, he creates a mysterious and surreal epic.”—Henning MankellMwanito was eleven when he saw a woman for the first ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Sword and the Spear

    A Novel

    by Mia Couto ...
    Translated by David Brookshaw ...
    Series Book 2 - Sands of the Emperor
    The second novel in the exhilarating Sands of the Emperor trilogy, following the Man Booker International Prize finalist Woman of the AshesMozambique, 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD