A River Called Time

by Mia Couto, David Brookshaw (Translator)

Overview

"Extraordinary vision . . . his prose is suffused with striking images."—The Washington Post

"To read Mia Couto is to encounter a peculiarly African sensibility, a writer of fluid, fragmentary narratives . . . remarkable."—The New Statesman

With a magical realism that blurs the boundaries between life and the afterlife in Mozambique, Mia Couto captures Africa today—a brilliant dissonance of old and new sounds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781846686719
Publisher:	Serpent's Tail Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	09/01/2009
Edition description:	Translatio
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Mia Couto was born in 1955 in Mozambique and is the most prominent writer in Portuguese-speaking Africa. He has been active as a journalist and during the revolutionary struggle headed the AIM news agency. He now lives in Maputo where he works as an environmental biologist and runs the Mozambique part of the Kruger National Park.

Editorial Reviews

"Extraordinary vistion...his prose is suffused with striking images." -Washington Post "Original and fresh...quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa." -Doris Lessing

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