Rain

After the war, I thought all that was left was ashes, hollow ruins . . . Today, I know thats not true. Where man remains, a seed, too, survives, a dream to inseminate time. Published in the aftermath of Mozambiques bloody civil war, Mia Coutos third collection seeks out the places violence could not reach, the places where, the author writes, every man is the same: pretending hes here, dreaming of going away, and plotting his return. Shifting masterfully between formscreation tale to meditation, playful comedy to magical twistthese stories grapple with questions of whats 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 Cames Prize for Literature, 2013 A Vanity Fair Must-Read Book From Around The World for Winter 2019 A Financial Times Summer Book of 2019