Books set in Mozambique (25)


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Secrets in the Fire by Henning Mankell, Anne Connie Stuksrud EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
Based on a real-life land mine victim, this middle reader novel tells a story of recovery, hope and coming of age of an African girl who loses her legs to a land mine.

12.

Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Africa / Mozambique flag Mozambique
Description:
"On almost every page of this witty magical realist whodunit, we sense Couto's delight on those places where language slips officialdom's asphyxiating grasp."--The New York Times Book Review on The Last Flight of the Flamingo "The most prominent of the younger generation of writers in Portuguese-speaking Africa, Couto passionately and sensitively describes everyday life in poverty-stricken Mozambique."--Guardian (London) "Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa."--Doris Lessing As the civil war rages in 1980s Mozambique, an old man and a young boy, refugees from the war, seek shelte... continue


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The First Wife : A Tale of Polygamy by Paulina Chiziane EN

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Country: Africa / Mozambique flag Mozambique
Description:
After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double--or rather, a quintuple--life. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. Rami remains calm in the face of her husband's duplicity and plots to make an honest man out of him. After Tony is forced to marry the four other women--as well as an additional lover--according to polygamist custom, the rival lovers join together to declare their voices and demand their rights. In this brilliantly funny and feverishly scathing critique, a major work fr... continue

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The Last Flight of the Flamingo by Mia Couto EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Africa / Mozambique flag Mozambique
Description:
An extraordinary portrait of an Africa country after a civil war.

16.

The Living and the Rest by José Eduardo Agualusa EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Angola flag Angola
Description:
Daniel lives with artist Moira on her native Island of Mozambique. They are awaiting the birth of their child, while also organising the island's first literary festival. But as soon as the first guests arrive, the coast is hit by a cyclone. The island is spared, but the bridge to the mainland is left impassable, and telephone and internet connections are severed. The islanders - and the writers who have come for the festival - are cut off from the outside world. Left to their own devices, the authors forge new bonds and make the best of a situation that gets stranger each day. Some believe th... continue

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The Tuner of Silences by Mia Couto EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Mozambique flag Mozambique
Description:
"Eleven when I saw a woman for the first time, I was seized by such surprise I burst into tears."

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The Word Tree by Teolinda Gersão EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
Gita loves Mozambique, while her mother - who came from Portugal in search of a better life - longs to be part of the wealthy Portuguese elite. Teolinda Gersao paints an evocative picture of childhood in Africa and the stark constrast between lush, ebullient Mozambique and the bleak and poor outlook of Salazar in Portugal."

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Un río llamado tiempo, una casa llamada tierra by Mia Couto ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Mozambique flag Mozambique
Description:
Mia Couto (1955) es uno de los escritores destacados de Mozambique. 'Un río llamado tiempo, una casa llamada tierra' (2002) es su ultima novela publicada en castellano (Universidad de San Martín, Buenos Aires, 2016). Descendiente de portugueses (o sea, blanco), es capaz de trasladar la lógica y la musicalidad del lenguaje local. La novela gira en torno a la muerte latente del abuelo Mariano, las relaciones entre sus parientes, y los secretos del pasado. La historia tiene elementos de lo que podría llamarse realismo mágico; y si el lector es capaz de... continue

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Under the Frangipani by Mia Couto EN

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Country: Africa / Mozambique flag Mozambique
Description:
A police inspector is investigating a strange murder, a case in which all the suspects are eager to claim responsibility for the act. Set in a former Portuguese fort which stored slaves and ivory, Under the Frangipani combines fable and allegory, dreams and myths with an earthy humour. The dead meet the living, language is invented, reality is constantly changing. Part thriller, part exploration of language, Mia Couto surprises and delights, and shows why he is one of the most important African writers of today.