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The Drinker of Horizons - A Novel by Mia Couto; David Brookshaw (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Sands of the Emperor Ser.
The scintillating conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prize-winning Sands of the Emperor trilogy. "[Couto's] life has been woven into the history of the nation, and he has become the foremost chronicler of Mozambique's antiheroes: its women, its peasants, even its d ...Show more
Woman of the Ashes by Mia Couto; David Brookshaw (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Sands of the Emperor Ser.
Southern Mozambique, 1894. Sergeant Germano de Melo is posted to the village of Nkokolani to oversee the Portuguese conquest of territory claimed by Ngungunyane, the last of the leaders of the state of Gaza, the second-largest empire led by an African. Ngungunyane has raised an army to resist colonial r ...Show more
Woman of the Ashes - A Novel by Mia Couto; David Brookshaw (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Sands of the Emperor Ser.
The first in a trilogy about the last emperor of southern Mozambique by one of Africa's most important writers Southern Mozambique, 1894. Sergeant Germano de Melo is posted to the village of Nkokolani to oversee the Portuguese conquest of territory claimed by Ngungunyane, the last of the leaders of the ...Show more
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