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 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 rule and with his warriors is slowly approaching the bor...

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 village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting the women who live there.Mariamar, a woman whose sister was killed in a lioness attack, finds her life t...

"Revelatory . . . An aching, dreamlike immersion." —Carl Hoffman, The Washington Post"An intensely powerful work about revolution, compromise, and long-buried secrets . . . A haunting, compelling book." —Tobias Carroll, Words Without BordersAn atmospheric novel about a father and son in the waning days of colonial Mozambique by the winner of the 2025 PEN/Nabokov AwardDiogo Santiago is a celebrated ...

**A roiling chronicle of motherhood and colonization from a writer who “alternates between a dramatic, high-octane style and a terse and humorous frankness” (Sheila Heti)Recipient of the 2021 Camões Prize, the most important award for literature in the Portuguese language**A potent whirl of history, mythology, and grapevine chatter, The Joyful Song of the Partridge absorbs readers into its many hiding places and along the wandering paths of its principal characters...

After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double--or rather, a quintuple--life. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. Rami remains calm in the face of her husband's duplicity and plots to make an honest man out of him. After Tony is forced to marry the four other women--as well as an additional lover--according to polygamist custom, the rival lovers join together to declare their v...

A seminal novel of African decolonization available for the first time in English translation.Lisbon 1961. Aware that the secret police are watching them, four young Angolans discuss their plans for a utopian homeland free from Portuguese rule. When war breaks out, they flee to France and must decide whether they will return home to join the fight. Two remain in exile and two return to Angola to become guerilla fighters, barely escaping capture over the course of t...

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 be taken to the hospital. The only one within reach is along the river Inhambane, so his lover Imani undertakes an arduous rescue mission, accompanied by her father and brother. Meanwhile, war rages between the P...

Already well-established in the Lusophone world, Mia Couto is increasingly acknowledged as a major voice in World literature. Winner of the Camões Prize for Literature in 2013, the most prestigious literary prize honouring Lusophone writers, he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2014, and in 2015 was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Yet, despite this high profile there are very few full-length critical studiesin English about his writing....

Longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary AwardThe 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 dead.” —Jacob Judah, The New York TimesIn ...

A RADIO FRANCE-CULTURE/TÉLÉRAMA BEST WORK OF FICTIONBY THE WINNER OF THE 2013 CAMÕES PRIZEAND THE WINNER OF THE 2014 NEUSTADT PRIZE“Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa.""—Doris Lessing“By meshing the richness of African beliefs . . . into the Western framework of the novel, he creates a mysterious and surreal epic.”—Henning MankellMwanito was eleven when he saw a woman for the first time, a...

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, Imagine Africa gives us a glimpse of a kaleidoscopic contemporary Africa.

First collection of Mia Couto's essays to appear in EnglishGathers journalism, talks, op-eds, essays, and opinion-pieces from over the course of his careerMia Couto's works have been translated into 20 languages and have sold nearly 2 million copies worldwideWinner of the $50,000 Neustadt Prize for Literature, 2014 (World Literature Today)Winner of the €100,000 Camões Prize for Literature, 2013Contender in the 2014 Tournament of Books (against James ...