Portuguese books from Africa

Recommended Portuguese books (3)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you speak Portuguese here are some Portuguese books from Africa for the next part of the "Read Around The World Challenge".

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O fio das missangas : contos by Mia Couto PT

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Africa / Mozambique flag Mozambique
Description:
Estórias breves mas contendo, cada uma delas, as infinitas vidas que se condensam em cada ser humano. Uma vez mais, a linguagem é trabalhada como se fosse delicada filigrana, confirmando o que o autor disse de si mesmo: «conto estórias por via da poesia». São vinte e nove contos unidos como missangas em redor de um fio, que é a escrita encantada de um consagrado fabricador de ilusões.

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Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto PT

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Mozambique flag Mozambique
Description:
"On almost every page of this witty magical realist whodunit, we sense Couto's delight on those places where language slips officialdom's asphyxiating grasp."--The New York Times Book Review on The Last Flight of the Flamingo "The most prominent of the younger generation of writers in Portuguese-speaking Africa, Couto passionately and sensitively describes everyday life in poverty-stricken Mozambique."--Guardian (London) "Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa."--Doris Lessing As the civil war rages in 1980s Mozambique, an old man and a young boy, refugees from the war, seek shelte... continue


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