Title : The Tuner of Silences - Mia Couto - book
Summary :
The first time I saw a woman, I was eleven years old, and I suddenly found myself so helpless that I burst into tears. I lived in a desert inhabited only by five men. My father had given this remote corner a name: Jesusalem. This was the land where Jesus would be decrucified. And that was that.
My old man, Silvestre Vitalício, had explained to us that the world was over and that we were the last survivors. Beyond the horizon, there were only lifeless territories that he vaguely called "the Other Side."
In the isolated game reserve, in the heart of a war-torn Mozambique, the world of Mwanito, the tuner of silences, born to be silent, will shatter with the arrival of an unknown woman who will force Silvestre, the master of this desolate world, face to face with his guilt.
Mia Couto, an admirer of the Brazilian Guimarães Rosa, draws from the beautiful, tragic, funny, enigmatic language of Mozambique all its power to create a literary universe full of invention, poetry and irony.
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EAN: 9782864248996
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