✦ LIBER ✦

The Tuner of Silences

✍ Scribed by Mia Couto

Publisher: Biblioasis
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Weight: 119 KB
Category: Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A RADIO FRANCE-CULTURE/T ÉLÉRAMA BEST WORK OF FICTION
BY THE WINNER OF THE 2013 CAMÕES 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 Mankell

Mwanito was eleven when he saw a woman for the first time, and the sight so surprised him he burst into tears.

Mwanito has been living in a former big-game park for eight years. The only people he knows are his father, his brother, an uncle, and a servant. He's been told that the rest of the world is dead, that all roads are sad, that they wait for an apology from God. In the place his father calls Jezoosalem, Mwanito has been told that crying and praying are the same thing. Both, it seems, are forbidden.

The eighth novel by the internationally bestselling Mia Couto,...

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