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Author / Creator:Couto, Mia, 1955- author.
Uniform title:Short stories. Selections (Rain and other stories). English
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2019]
Description:163 pages ; 19 cm.
Language:English
Series:Biblioasis international translation series ; 25
Biblioasis international translation series ; no. 25.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11768589
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Other authors / contributors:Becker, Eric M. B., translator.
ISBN:9781771962667
1771962666
Notes:Originally published as Estórias Abensonhadas: Contos by Editorial Cminho, Lisbon, Portugal, 1994.
In English.
Summary:"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. 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."--Page 2 of cover.
Other form:Couto, Mia, 1955- Short stories. Selections. English Rain & other stories./ Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, 2018. Biblioasis international translation series Biblioasis international translation series ;