Sea Loves Me
Mia Couto
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
An NPR Best Book of 2021
New and selected fiction, over half in English for the first time, from the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize.
Known internationally for his novels, Neustadt Prize-winner Mia Couto first became famous for his short stories. Sea Loves Me includes sixty-four of his best, thirty-six of which appear in English for the first time. Covering the entire arc of Couto's career, this collection displays the Mozambican author's inventiveness, sensitivity, and social range with greater richness than any previous collection—from early stories that reflect the harshness of life under Portuguese colonialism; to magical tales of rural Africa; to contemporary fables of the fluidity of race and gender, environmental disaster, and the clash between the countryside and the city. The title novella, long acclaimed as one of Couto's best works but never before available in English, caps this collection with the lyrical story of a search for a lost father that leads unexpectedly to love.
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20th century, Lusophone literature, cultural diversity, magical realism, translation, world literature, indigenous, short fiction, translated literature, ethnicity, war, politics, african literature, postcolonalism, representation, creation myth, civil war, contemporary fiction, south africa, creation story, diversity, colonialism, mozambique, portuguese literature, short stories, racism, literary fiction