by Mia Couto · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722117951
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«O outro pé da sereia» is the novel by Mia Couto, published by Editorial Caminho in 2006, with 382 pages and in Portuguese.
The story interweaves the journeys of a Portuguese missionary, a young woman, an African-American couple and a slave; the statue of Our Lady also travels from Goa to Africa. The village of Vila Longe crosses the territory of dreams, and everything converges in a magical, mysterious and poetic narrative.
It belongs to the Outras Margens collection of Editorial Caminho (no. 55). It received the Prémio Passo Fundo Zaffari & Bourbon de Literatura.
For readers of African and Mozambican literature, as well as for those seeking novels that combine history, magical realism and poetry.
António Emílio Leite Couto, better known as Mia Couto, is a Mozambican writer. He won the Camões Prize in 2013, the most important literary award in the Portuguese language, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2014.
