Rain: And Other Stories

Mia Couto's third collection, published in the aftermath of Mozambique's bloody civil war, explores the places where violence could not reach, questioning what future exists for a country that broke the yoke of colonialism. The stories are a new translation of stories by the Man Booker-listed author of Confession of the Lioness and rediscovers possibility and what it means to be reborn.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 168 pages
\n Publication date: 07 March 2019
\n Publisher: Biblioasis
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After the war, I believed that all that remained were ashes, hollow ruins. However, today, I know that is not the case. Where man remains, a seed also survives, a dream to inseminate time. 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, as 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 has 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.

Finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize
Winner of the Neustadt Prize for Literature, 2014
Winner of the Camões Prize for Literature, 2013
A Vanity Fair Must-Read Book From Around The World for Winter 2019
A Financial Times Summer Book of 2019

\n Weight: 176g\n
Dimension: 172 x 123 x 13 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781771962667\n \n