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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Couto, Mia, 1955-     Subjects     Mozambique -- Fiction.     Gaza Province (Mozambique) -- Colonization -- Fiction.     Gaza Province (Mozambique) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Couto, Mia, 1955-       by title:      The sword and the sp...      Espada e azagaia. En...       by call number:      FICTION COU     Search the Web     Couto, Mia, 1955-     Mozambique -- Fiction.     Gaza Province (Mozambique) -- Colonization -- Fiction.     Gaza Province (Mozambique) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The sword and the spear / Mia Couto ; translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw. by Couto, Mia, 1955- Picador, 2021. Call #: FICTION COU Subjects Mozambique -- Fiction.   Gaza Province (Mozambique) -- Colonization -- Fiction.   Gaza Province (Mozambique) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction. Series Couto, Mia, 1955- Sands of the emperor ; 2. ISBN:  9781250800091 (trade pbk.) Uniform title:  Espada e azagaia. English Edition:  1st Picador paperback ed. Description:  x, 273 p. ; 21 cm. Notes:  "Originally published in Portuguese in 2016 by Editorial Caminho, Portugal, as A espada e azagaia ; English translation published in the United States in 2020 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux" -- T.p. verso. Text in English, translated from the Portuguese. Summary:  "Mozambique, 1895. After an attack on his quarters, the defeated Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo needs to be taken to the hospital. The only one within reach is along the Inharrime River, so his lover, Imani, undertakes an arduous rescue mission, accompanied by her father and brother. Meanwhile, war rages between the Portuguese occupiers and Ngungunyane's warriors battles waged with sword and spear, until the arrival of a devastating new weapon destined to secure European domination. Germano wants to start a new life with Imani, but the Portuguese military has other plans for the injured soldier. And Imani's father has his own plan for his daughter's future: as one of Ngungunyane's wives, she would be close enough to the tyrant to avenge the destruction of their village. With elegance and compassion, Mia Couto's The Sword and the Spear--the second volume in the prizewinning Sands of the Emperor trilogy--illustrates the futility of war and the porous boundaries between apparently foreign culture, boundaries which entire societies, but also friends and lovers, perceive to be both intractable and in decline." --Publisher. Genre:  Portuguese fiction -- Translations into English. Other authors:  Brookshaw, David. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION COU Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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