Style='text-align: left '>Winner of the Neustadt Prize for Literat. Rain: And Other Stories Mia Couto Buy Now Indiebound Publisher Biblioasis Date FebruFiction Literature in Translation Story Collections Published in the aftermath of Mozambique’s bloody civil war, Mia Couto’s third collection seeks out the places violence could not reach. Style='text-align: left '>Finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize Following fishermen and fortune-tellers, widows and drunks, and one errant hippopotamus, this new translation of stories by the Man Booker-listed author of Confession of the Lioness rediscovers possibility and what it means to be reborn. 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, what future exists for a country that broke the yoke of colonialism only to descend into internecine war, what is Mozambican and what is Mozambique. Where man remains, a seed, too, survives, a dream to inseminate time. They read like stories designed to preserve a culture’s history, traditions, and way of life. A new translation of brilliant stories by Man Booker-finalist and author of Confession of the. Softcover 14.95 ( 168pp) 978-1-77196-266-7 Mia Couto’s Rain and Other Stories is reminiscent of centuries-old legends told and retold from one generation to the next. After the war, I thought all that was left was ashes, hollow ruins. Buy Rain: And Other Stories by Mia Couto online at Shulph Ink.

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