The Last Flight of the Flamingo

Name: The Last Flight of the Flamingo
Author: Mia Couto

by Mia Couto

Murder mystery in postcolonial Mozambique blending magical realism with detective fiction

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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.

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