The scintillating conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prize-winning Sands of the Emperor trilogy.
Imani\'s own return will come only after a decade-long odyssey through the Portuguese empire at the beginning of the tw The scintillating conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prize-winning Sands of the Em.
For the emperor and his seven wives, it will be a journey of no return.
We resume where The Sword and the Spear concluded: While Germano is left behind in Africa, serving with the Portuguese military, Imani has been enlisted to act as the interpreter to the imprisoned emperor of Gaza, Ngungunyane, on the long voyage to Lisbon. --Jacob Judah, The New York Times In The Drinker of Horizons, the award-winning author Mia Couto brings the epic love story between a young Mozambican woman named Imani and the Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo to its moving close. [Couto\'s] life has been woven into the history of the nation, and he has become the foremost chronicler of Mozambique\'s antiheroes: its women, its peasants, even its dead.
The scintillating conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prize-winning Sands of the Emperor trilogy.
Throughout, Couto\'s language astonishes, rendering with utter clarity the beauty and terror of war and love, and revealing the devastation of a profoundly unequal encounter between cultures.
If history is always narrated by the victors, in The Drinker of Horiozons, Couto performs an act of restorative justice, giving a voice to those silenced by the horrors of colonialism.
Imani\'s will come only after a decade-long odyssey through the Portuguese empire at the beginning of the twentieth century.
For Ngungunyane and his seven wives, it will be a journey of no return.
We resume where The Sword and the Spear left off: While Germano is left behind in Africa, serving with the Portuguese military, Imani has been enlisted to act as the interpreter to the imprisoned emperor of Gaza, Ngungunyane, on the long voyage to Lisbon. --Jacob Judah, The New York Times In The Drinker of Horizons, the award-winning author Mia Couto brings the epic love story between a young Mozambican woman named Imani and the Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo to its stirring close. [Couto\'s] life has been woven into the history of the nation, and he has become the foremost chronicler of Mozambique\'s antiheroes: its women, its peasants, even its dead.
The scintillating conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prize-winning Sands of the Emperor trilogy
