Rain and other stories / Mia Couto ; translated from the Portuguese by Eric M.B. Becker.

"Published in the aftermath of Mozambique's bloody civil war, Mia Couto's third collection seeks out the places violence could not reach, the places where, the author writes, "every man is the same: pretending he's here, dreaming of going away, and plotting his return." Shifting masterfully between...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Short stories. Selections. English
Biblioasis international translation series ; no. 25.
Main Author: Couto, Mia, 1955- (Author)
Other Authors: Becker, Eric M. B. (Translator)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Portuguese
Language and/or Writing System:
Translated from the Portuguese.
Published: Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Biblioasis international translation series ; no. 25.
Subjects:
Couto, Mia, > 1955- > Translations into English.
Couto, Mia, > 1955-
Mozambique > Fiction.
Short stories, Mozambican (Portuguese)
Translations.
Short stories.
Genre:
Translations into English.
Fiction.
Translations.
Short stories.
Physical Description:163 pages ; 19 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The waters of time
  • Novidade's flowers
  • Blind Estrelinho
  • The delivery
  • The perfume
  • Virgilio's heel
  • Rain
  • Felizbento's pipe
  • The flag in the sunset
  • Ninety-three
  • Jorojão's cradle of memories
  • Lamentations of a coconut tree
  • Beyond the river bend
  • Serpent's embrace
  • High-heel shoes
  • The hapless calculus of happiness
  • Joãotónio, for now
  • That devil of an advocate
  • War of the clowns
  • Legend of Namaroi
  • The woman engulfed in stone
  • Drinking the time by
  • The deaf father
  • The oracle of death
  • The shadow's departure
  • Square of the gods.