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Sleepwalking land by mia couto itll enlighten you on some of mozambique s history, but thats just the setting, not the story. The acclaimed 1992 novel sleepwalking land by white mozambican author mia couto was first published in coutos native portuguese as terra sonambula, and then translated into english by david brookshaw in 2006. Mia coutos sleepwalking land is set during mozambiques civil war, but it is not a novel specifically about mozambique, its about the entire postcolonial continent. Sleepingwalking land is the story of an old man and a young boy who, while trying to hide from the war, find a. Mia couto achieves the miracle of personalizing history. In the first, an old man and a young orphaned boy have fled a refugee camp and seek shelter in a burnedout bus on the side of the road. The terda and yet extremely simple way with which mia couto tells this story that feels more like a tale lights up the grave subject. Download sleepwalking land or read online books in pdf, epub, tuebl, and mobi format.
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