Mia Couto

The Cartographer of Absences

By David Brookshaw (trans.) - By Mia Couto - Published 2025

Genres:

Literary

Mia Couto is a Mozambican poet, novelist, journalist, and biologist, and one of the most important writers in Africa. The Cartographer of Absences ...Read Review

The Drinker of Horizons (Sands of the Emperor, 3)

By Mia Couto - Published 2023

Genres:

Nautical

Couto’s Sands of the Emperor trilogy explores the destruction of a nation and subjugation of its people. This third book relates a ...Read Review

The Sword and the Spear (Sands of the Emperor, 2)

By Mia Couto - Published 2020

Genres:

Saga

This tale of star-crossed lovers begins in Mozambique in 1895, in a boat on the Inharrime River with 15-year-old Imani Nsambe, her father, and ...Read Review

Woman of the Ashes

By David Brookshaw (trans.) - By Mia Couto - Published 2018

Genres:

Literary

The introduction to this tale of the end of independence for the country then called Gaza (now Mozambique) is emblematic of its gradual ...Read Review