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Rain : And Other Stories by Mia Couto (2019, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherBiblioasis

ISBN-101771962666

ISBN-139781771962667

eBay Product ID (ePID)17038400946

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Book TitleRain : and Other Stories

Number of Pages168 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Magical Realism, Literary, African

Publication Year2019

GenreFiction, Literary Collections

AuthorMia Couto

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight6.3 Oz

Item Length7 in

Item Width4.9 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsPRAISE FOR RAIN "Stellar...offers fable-like gems capturing lives hurt and heroic, damaging and enduring...At a low point, Blind Estrelinho "remained on the side of the road, like a balled-up handkerchief soaked with sadness," and such language stuns throughout. A woman deserted by her husband, a problem child rushing to rescue her father--these are some of Couto's poignant stories. VERDICT Highly recommended." --Library Journal (starred review) "Wide ranging in theme, mood, and genre...[Couto's] descriptions of landscapes and people have the power and mystery of the best style of folklore. The strength of his characters, whether he's portraying an old math professor exploring love, a cross-dressing neighbor, or a businessman creating a happy communal space as a gift to God, is most apparent in how with few words their varied lives become relatable. Becker's translation conveys Couto's precise use of language to capture the innately elusive nature of human experience." --Booklist "Convey[s] a sense of profound loss flecked with a measure of optimism about life after the bloodshed is over. An impressionistic flash-fiction trek through the wreckage of war." --Kirkus Reviews PRAISE FOR MIA COUTO "Mia Couto's stories of civilisation and barbarity are told through a language that is precise and profound; he weaves together the living tradition of legend, poetry and song." --International Man Booker shortlist jury citation "On almost every page ... we sense Couto's delight in those places where language slips officialdom's asphyxiating grasp."--The New York Times "[Couto is] a brilliant aphorist. There are countless sentences that ... have the weight and wisdom of ancient proverbs." --The Wall Street Journal "Even in translation, his prose is suffused with striking images."--The Washington Post "Couto's narrative tone, at once deadpan and beguiling, and his virtuoso management of time place him alongside the best Latin American magic realists." --Times Literary Supplement "Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa."--Doris Lessing "Mia Couto, long regarded as one of the leading writers in Mozambique, has now been recognized as one of the greatest living writers in the Portuguese language ... [He] cracks open a welcoming window onto a vast world of literary pleasures that has for too long remained under the radar in the English-speaking world."--Philip Graham, The Millions, PRAISE FOR MIA COUTO "Mia Couto's stories of civilisation and barbarity are told through a language that is precise and profound; he weaves together the living tradition of legend, poetry and song." --International Man Booker shortlist jury citation "On almost every page ... we sense Couto's delight in those places where language slips officialdom's asphyxiating grasp."--The New York Times "[Couto is] a brilliant aphorist. There are countless sentences that ... have the weight and wisdom of ancient proverbs." --The Wall Street Journal "Even in translation, his prose is suffused with striking images."--The Washington Post "Couto's narrative tone, at once deadpan and beguiling, and his virtuoso management of time place him alongside the best Latin American magic realists." --Times Literary Supplement "Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa."--Doris Lessing Mia Couto, long regarded as one of the leading writers in Mozambique, has now been recognized as one of the greatest living writers in the Portuguese language ... [He] cracks open a welcoming window onto a vast world of literary pleasures that has for too long remained under the radar in the English-speaking world."--Philip Graham, The Millions, Praise for Mia Couto "One of the greatest living writers in the Portuguese language."--Philip Graham, The Millions "Subtle and elegant." --The Wall Street Journal "At once deadpan and beguiling." --The Times Literary Supplement "Remarkable ... If his recent Neustadt Prize is any indication, [Couto] is a presumptive Nobel Prize-winning writer that we ... should be reading." --National Post "To understand what makes Antnio 'Mia' Emlio Leite Couto special--even extraordinary--we have to loosen our grip on the binary that distinguishes between 'the West' and 'Africa.' Couto is 'white' without not being African, and as an 'African' writer he's one of the most important figures in a global Lusophone literature that stretches across three continents." --The New Inquiry "If there is an overarching drive that threads the collection together, it's Couto's commitment to recognize history's numerous flaws, and to use this history to embrace a diverse future, full of 'hybridities' of both self and cultural environs ... A fine writer who deserves a wide North American audience ... [Couto] is a constant witness to a country--flush with nouveau riche and mass poverty--trying to figure out its place in both Africa and the world." --Numro Cinq "[Having] helped birth ... the global literary scene's love affair with African fiction, Couto is a polymath who not only sustains a lively scientific career but is also a former political activist once deeply involved in the fight for his country's independence." --OZY, PRAISE FOR MIA COUTO "Mia Couto's stories of civilisation and barbarity are told through a language that is precise and profound; he weaves together the living tradition of legend, poetry and song." --International Man Booker shortlist jury citation "On almost every page ... we sense Couto's delight in those places where language slips officialdom's asphyxiating grasp."--The New York Times "[Couto is] a brilliant aphorist. There are countless sentences that ... have the weight and wisdom of ancient proverbs." --The Wall Street Journal "Even in translation, his prose is suffused with striking images."--The Washington Post "Couto's narrative tone, at once deadpan and beguiling, and his virtuoso management of time place him alongside the best Latin American magic realists." --Times Literary Supplement "Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa."--Doris Lessing "Mia Couto, long regarded as one of the leading writers in Mozambique, has now been recognized as one of the greatest living writers in the Portuguese language ... [He] cracks open a welcoming window onto a vast world of literary pleasures that has for too long remained under the radar in the English-speaking world."--Philip Graham, The Millions, PRAISE FOR RAIN AND OTHER STORIES"Stellar...offers fable-like gems capturing lives hurt and heroic, damaging and enduring...At a low point, Blind Estrelinho "remained on the side of the road, like a balled-up handkerchief soaked with sadness," and such language stuns throughout. A woman deserted by her husband, a problem child rushing to rescue her father--these are some of Couto's poignant stories. VERDICT Highly recommended." --Library Journal (starred review)"Convey[s] a sense of profound loss flecked with a measure of optimism about life after the bloodshed is over. An impressionistic flash-fiction trek through the wreckage of war." --Kirkus ReviewsPRAISE FOR MIA COUTO "Mia Couto's stories of civilisation and barbarity are told through a language that is precise and profound; he weaves together the living tradition of legend, poetry and song." --International Man Booker shortlist jury citation"On almost every page ... we sense Couto's delight in those places where language slips officialdom's asphyxiating grasp."--The New York Times"[Couto is] a brilliant aphorist. There are countless sentences that ... have the weight and wisdom of ancient proverbs." --The Wall Street Journal"Even in translation, his prose is suffused with striking images."--The Washington Post"Couto's narrative tone, at once deadpan and beguiling, and his virtuoso management of time place him alongside the best Latin American magic realists." --Times Literary Supplement"Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa."--Doris LessingMia Couto, long regarded as one of the leading writers in Mozambique, has now been recognized as one of the greatest living writers in the Portuguese language ... [He] cracks open a welcoming window onto a vast world of literary pleasures that has for too long remained under the radar in the English-speaking world."--Philip Graham, The Millions

Dewey Decimal869.3/42

SynopsisA new translation of brilliant stories by Man Booker-finalist and author of Confession of the Lioness., After the war, I thought all that was left was ashes, hollow ruins . . . Today, I know that's not true. Where man remains, a seed, too, survives, a dream to inseminate time. 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 forms--creation tale to meditation, playful comedy to magical twist--these stories grapple with questions of what's been lost and what can be reclaimed, what future exists for a country that broke the yoke of colonialism only to descend into internecine war, what is Mozambican and what is Mozambique. Following fishermen and fortune-tellers, widows and drunks, and one errant hippopotamus, this new translation of stories by the Man Booker-listed author of Confession of the Lioness rediscovers possibility and what it means to be reborn. style="text-align: left;">Finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize style="text-align: left;">Winner of the Neustadt Prize for Literature, 2014 style="text-align: left;">Winner of the Cam es Prize for Literature, 2013 A Vanity Fair Must-Read Book From Around The World for Winter 2019 A Financial Times Summer Book of 2019, Written in the aftermath of civil war, these early stories are among Mia Couto's freshest, most original fiction. In tales that mingle playful comedy with surprising plot twists and magical events, fishermen, fortune-tellers, widows, cross-dressers, small-town drinkers and even an errant hippopotamus, rediscover life's possibilities and the ability to dream. A new translation of brilliant stories by Man Booker-finalist and author of Confession of the Lioness., After the war, I thought all that was left was ashes, hollow ruins . . . Today, I know that's not true. Where man remains, a seed, too, survives, a dream to inseminate time. 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 forms--creation tale to meditation, playful comedy to magical twist--these stories grapple with questions of what's been lost and what can be reclaimed, what future exists for a country that broke the yoke of colonialism only to descend into internecine war, what is Mozambican and what is Mozambique. Following fishermen and fortune-tellers, widows and drunks, and one errant hippopotamus, this new translation of stories by the Man Booker-listed author of Confession of the Lioness rediscovers possibility and what it means to be reborn. style="text-align: left;">Finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize style="text-align: left;">Winner of the Neustadt Prize for Literature, 2014 style="text-align: left;">Winner of the Camões Prize for Literature, 2013 A Vanity Fair Must-Read Book From Around The World for Winter 2019 A Financial Times Summer Book of 2019

LC Classification NumberPQ9939.C68