A River Called Time

Name: A River Called Time
Author: Mia Couto

by Mia Couto

Epic novel spanning generations and African history through a woman's perspective

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Mia Couto

Mozambican novelist who writes in a poetically transformed Portuguese incorporating Bantu grammatical structures and folk imagery. Sleepwalking Land and The Last Flight of the Flamingo are internationally celebrated works of lyrical postcolonial fiction.

More by Mia Couto

Sleepwalking LandMozambican family journey through war and memory in surreal, magical realist landscape
The Last Flight of the FlamingoMurder mystery in postcolonial Mozambique blending magical realism with detective fiction
Confession of the LionessWoman recounts her life through fables and myth in contemporary Mozambique