| The Last Flight of the Flamingo Contributor(s): Couto, Mia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1852428139 ISBN-13: 9781852428136 Publisher: Serpent's Tail OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2005 Annotation: "A wonderful mix of magical realism and wordplay that has a similar tone to Mrquez at his best. Couto writes in an idiom all his own that feels authentically African."-"Ink" In Mozambique after the end of the civil war, local soldiers have been unaccountably blown up. When it begins to happen to UN peacekeepers, a high-level delegation visits the village of Tizangara to initiate an investigation. As the UN investigation unfolds, Mia Couto brilliantly shows how the perceptions of events both inside and outside the country are altered when interpreted from an African perspective. Mia Couto was born in 1955 in Mozambique and is the most prominent Portuguese-speaking African writer. He now lives in Maputo, where he manages the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.1" W x 7.6" (0.45 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A wonderful mix of magical realism and wordplay that has a similar tone to M rquez at his best. Couto writes in an idiom all his own that feels authentically African.--Ink In Mozambique after the end of the civil war, local soldiers have been unaccountably blown up. When it begins to happen to UN peacekeepers, a high-level delegation visits the village of Tizangara to initiate an investigation. As the UN investigation unfolds, Mia Couto brilliantly shows how the perceptions of events both inside and outside the country are altered when interpreted from an African perspective. Mia Couto was born in 1955 in Mozambique and is the most prominent Portuguese-speaking African writer. He now lives in Maputo, where he manages the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. |