by Mia Couto · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722114936
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«Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra» is the novel by Mia Couto, published by Caminho (262 pages, in Portuguese).
A student returns to his native island for the funeral of his grandfather Mariano. While waiting, he receives strange visits and letters from the other side of the world that lead him into a spiritual universe. These revelations allow him to rediscover his history and that of his land, in a story about the tensions between the urban elite and the rural Mozambican world.
Published in 2002, it is number 1 in the Outras Margens collection; Portuguese edition of 262 pages.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in Mozambican culture, spirituality and the return to one's roots.
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.
