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Author / Creator: | Couto, Mia, 1955- |
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Uniform title: | Short stories. Selections. English |
Imprint: | Oxford : Heinemann, 1994. |
Description: | 1 online resource (118 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | African writers series, 0065-4108 African writers series. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12477526 |
Summary: | 18 short stories which look at the issues of civil war, petty officialdom and curruption against the backdrop of post-independence Mozambique. They tell the wider Mozambican story through tales of individual men and women, and contain many strange and fantastic incidents. |
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Item Description: | Translation of selected works from: Cada homem é uma raça (Lisbon: Caminho, 1990), and Cronicando (Lisbon: Caminho, 1989). "Set in Mozambique, the stories reflect the legacy of Portuguese colonialism and the tragedy of the subsequent civil war"--Cover |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (118 pages) |
ISBN: | 0435909827 9780435909826 |
ISSN: | 0065-4108 |