- Women, Spirits, Villages, Lion attacks
A dark, poetic mystery about the women of the remote village of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, Mia Couto's "Confession of the Lioness" reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting the women who live there
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- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Mia Couto
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 270
- Publisher
- Editorial Caminho, Sociedade Editorial Ndjira, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9789722125673
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Mia Couto (n. Beira, 5 de julho de 1955) é um escritor e biólogo moçambicano. Venceu o prémio Camões em 2013 e o prémio Neustadt em 2014. --- Mia Couto (b. Beira, 5 July 1955), is a Mozambican writer. He won the Camões Prize in 2013, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2014.
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