Mia Couto

The Tuner of Silences

Übersetzer: Brookshaw, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Eleven when I saw a woman for the first time, I was seized by such surprise I burst into tears."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biblioasis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 131mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9781926845951
• ISBN-10: 1926845951
• Artikelnr.: 35346865

Autorenporträt

Mia Couto, an environmental biologist from Mozambique, is the author of 25 books of fiction, essays and poems in his native Portuguese. Couto's novels and short story collections have been translated into 20 languages. Two of his novels have been made into feature films. His work has been awarded important literary prizes in Mozambique, South Africa, Portugal, Italy and Brazil. His books have been bestsellers in Africa, Europe and Latin America. Six of Couto's books have been translated into English in the United Kingdom: two short story collections by Heinemann and four novels by Serpent's Tail. David Brookshaw is a professor of Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol (London), and the General Editor of the HiPLA Monograph Series. He is the translator of six books by Couto, including Sleepwalking Land and The Last Flight of the Flamingo.

Inhaltsangabe

BOOK ONE - HUMANITY
I, Mwanito, the tuner of silences
My father, Silvestre Vitalício
My brother, Ntunzi
Uncle Aproximado
Zachary Kalash, the soldier
Jezebel the jenny
BOOK TWO - THE VISIT
The apparition
The woman's papers
Eviction order
Second batch of papers
Madness
Orders to kill
BOOK THREE - REVELATIONS AND RETURNS
Leave taking
A bullet bitten
The immovable tree
The book