by Mia Couto · EDICIONS DEL PERISCOPI · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417339135
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«Terra somnàmbula» is the novel by Mia Couto, published by Edicions del Periscopi in paperback (264 pages, in Catalan).
Faced with the violence of the Mozambican civil war, old Tuahir and young amnesiac Muidinga take refuge in a burnt-out bus, where they find notebooks narrating the life of a deceased man. As Muidinga reads them, that story and his own move between reality and dream. The poetic prose vindicates oral tradition and memory.
Published in 2018, it is part of the Antípoda collection (number 32), translated by Pere Comellas Casanova.
A work of contemporary fiction for readers interested in African literature and poetic prose.
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.
