Confession of the lioness / Mia Couto ; translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw.

A dark, poetic mystery about the women of the remote village of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them Told 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 ar...

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Uniform Title:Confissão da leoa. English
Main Author: Couto, Mia, 1955- (Author)
Other Authors: Brookshaw, David (Translator)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Portuguese
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Edition:First American edition.
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Physical Description:x, 192 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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