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A River Called Time

Mia Couto

Explodes the gulf between modern materialism and traditional values.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Serpent's Tail
  • Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2009
  • Pages: 192
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.30in - 0.80in - 0.65lb
  • EAN: 9781846686719
  • Categories: European - Spanish & Portuguese

About the Author

Mia Couto was born in 1955 in Mozambique and is the most prominent writer in Portuguese-speaking Africa. He has been active as a journalist and during the revolutionary struggle headed the AIM news agency. He now lives in Maputo where he works as an environmental biologist and runs the Mozambique part of the Kruger National Park.

Praise for this book

Extraordinary vistion...his prose is suffused with striking images. -Washington Post Original and fresh...quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa. -Doris Lessing