by Mia Couto · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722113984
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«Na berma de nenhuma estrada e outros contos» is a collection of short stories by Mia Couto, published by Caminho in paperback (184 pages, in Portuguese).
It brings together 38 stories selected by the author from his tales in the Portuguese and Mozambican press. Stories from a magical universe where the fantastic and the supernatural coexist with the everyday; intense characters that evoke Mozambique and the writer's childhood, with identity, memory and the human condition as a backdrop.
The work belongs to the series «Uma terra sem amos» and was originally published in 2001 by Caminho.
Recommended for readers interested in African narrative in Portuguese and in the short story with fantastic and everyday elements.
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.
