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"Couto's work doesn't so much blur the generic and stylistic boundaries we normally draw as explode them."--The Boston Globe This new collection of short fiction from Mia Couto, author of Confession of the Lioness (FSG, 2015), offers a stylistically dazzling variety of pieces tackling both timely and timeless issues: the ravages of war, the legacy of colonialism, endemic racism, and more. Mia Couto is the author of twenty-five books of fiction, essays, and poems. He was the winner of the prestigious 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize.
