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TRE UTSÖKTA NOVELLER AV TVÅ AV DEN PORTUGISISKSPRÅKIGA SKÖNLITTERATURENS STORA NAMN José Eduardo Agualusa föddes i Huambo i Angola 1960. Han studerade jordbruk och skogsbruk i sin hemstad, men valde sedan att inrikta sig på en bana som romanförfat...

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Sebastiao Salgado is one the most respected photojournalists working today, his reputation forged by decades of dedication and powerful black-and-white images of dispossessed and distressed people, taken in places where most wouldn't dare to go. A...

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Sjöjungfruns andra fot är en poetisk roman som ifrågasätter uppfattningar om identitet, ras och tradition. I mars 1560 kommer jesuiten Don Gonçalo Silviera till Sofala i sydöstra Afrika med det portugisiska skeppet Nossa Senhora da Ajuda. Han har ...

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The civil war in Mozambique has ended but still the local soldiers are being hit by the landmines that litter the ground. When United Nations peacekeepers begin to suffer too, a high-level delegation visits the village of Tizangara, to initiate an...

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Mia Couto föddes i Beira i Mocambique 1955 i en familj som utvandrat från Portugal. Han engagerade sig tidigt i befrielserörelsen och började efter Självständigheten 1975 att arbeta som journalist vid sidan av studier i biologi. Förutom i sitt omf...

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The masterful conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prize - winning Sands of the Emperor Trilogy. In The Drinker of Horizons , the award-winning author Mia Couto brings the epic love story between the young Afri...

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The scintillating conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prize-winning Sands of the Emperor trilogy."e;[Couto's] life has been woven into the history of the nation, and he has become the foremost chronicler o...

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A dark, poetic mystery about the women of the remote village of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt themTold through two haunting, interwoven diaries, Mia Couto's Confession of the Lioness reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, an isolated vil...

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The first in a trilogy about the last emperor of southern Mozambique by one of Africa's most important writersSouthern Mozambique, 1894. Sergeant Germano de Melo is posted to the village of Nkokolani to oversee the Portuguese conquest of territory...

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The second novel in the exhilarating Sands of the Emperor trilogy, following the Man Booker International Prize finalist Woman of the AshesMozambique, 1895. After an attack on his quarters, the defeated Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo needs to...

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Imagine Africa and its theme of "Revolution" is introduced by Georges Lory who opens the collection with his essay, "Poets to your quills, Africa is taking off". Through a collage of poems, essays, fiction, and visual art, Imag...

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Imagine Africa and its theme of "e;Revolution"e; is introduced by Georges Lory who opens the collection with his essay, "e;Poets to your quills, Africa is taking off"e;. Through a collage of poems, essays, fiction, and visual art, ...

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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 Afr...

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The second novel in the exhilarating Sands of the Emperor trilogy, following the Man Booker International Prize finalist Woman of the Ashes Mozambique, 1895. After an attack on his quarters, the defeated Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo needs t...

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Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2017A finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeMy sister Sil ncia was the most recent victim of the lions, which have been tormenting our village for some weeks now When Mariamar M...

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At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Gaza province of Mozambique is drowning in a torrent of war. Imani, a fifteen-year-old girl, struggles with her cultural identity as she is torn between her VaChopi roots and the occupying Portuguese. Her...

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One of the greatest living writers in the Portuguese language.Philip Graham, The MillionsWhat would Barack Obama's 2004 campaign have looked like if it unfolded in an African nation? What does it mean to be an African writer today? How do writers ...

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BY THE FINALIST FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE THE WINNER OF THE 2014 NEUSTADT PRIZE AND THE WINNER OF THE 2013 CAMOES PRIZE "One of the greatest living writers in the Portuguese language."--Philip Graham, The Millions "...

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After the war, I thought all that was left was ashes, hollow ruins . . . Today, I know that's not true. Where man remains, a seed, too, survives, a dream to inseminate time. Published in the aftermath of Mozambique's bloody civil war, Mia Couto's ...

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After the war, I thought all that was left was ashes, hollow ruins . . . Today, I know that's not true. Where man remains, a seed, too, survives, a dream to inseminate time.Published in the aftermath of Mozambique's bloody civil war, Mia Couto's t...

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An NPR Best Book of 2021 New and selected fiction, over half in English for the first time, from the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize. Known internationally for his novels, Neustadt Prize-winner Mia Couto first became famous for his short stories...

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An NPR Best Book of 2021New and selected fiction, over half in English for the first time, from the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize.Known internationally for his novels, Neustadt Prize-winner Mia Couto first became famous for his short stories. ...

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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, ...

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An old man and a young boy, refugees from a civil war, seek shelter in a burnt out bus. Among the effects of a dead passenger, they discover a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, the tale gr...

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Mozambique, 1895. The last days of the so-called Gaza Empire. After an attack on his quarters, defeated sergeant Germano de Melo is taken by his bright, young love Imani to the only hospital within reach an arduous river journey. Meanwhile, war ra...

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Set against the backdrop of the war between the Kingdom of Gaza, one of the last great pre-colonial African kingdoms, and the Portuguese colonialists, a young African woman Imani and the Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo have shared an unexpecte...

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A RADIO FRANCE-CULTURE/TELERAMA BEST WORK OF FICTION BY THE FINALIST FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE THE WINNER OF THE 2014 NEUSTADT PRIZE AND THE WINNER OF THE 2013 CAMOES PRIZE "Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa...

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Die junge Imani kümmert sich aufopfernd um ihren Geliebten Germano, der sich schwer versehrt in ein abgelegenes Dorf am Flussufer gerettet hat. Währenddessen tobt der Krieg zwischen der portugiesischen Krone und dem mosambikanischen Herrscher Ngun...

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In Moçambique stoßen verschiedene Welten aufeinander: die politische Vergangenheit des ehemaligen Koloniallandes und postkommunistischen Staates, die Konflikte der Gegenwart und zeitlose, mythische und magische Geschichten. In einem Altershe...

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