{"product_id":"untitled-mar26_21-23","title":"Sleepwalking Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSleepwalking Land written by Mia Couto translated by David Brookshaw.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn almost every page of this witty magical realist whodunit, we sense Couto's delight on those places where language slips officialdom's asphyxiating grasp.\" The New York Times Book Review on The Last Flight of the Flamingo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe most prominent of the younger generation of writers in Portuguese-speaking Africa, Couto passionately and sensitively describes everyday life in poverty-stricken Mozambique.\" Guardian (London)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eQuite unlike anything else I have read from Africa.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDoris Lessing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs the civil war rages in 1980s Mozambique, an old man and a young boy, refugees from the war, seek shelter in a burnt-out bus. Among the effects of a dead passenger, they come across a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, this story and their own develop in tandem. Written in 1992, Mia Couto's first novel is a powerful indictment of the suffering war brings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in 1955 in Mozambique, Mia Couto ran the AIM news agency during the revolutionary struggle. He now lives in Maputo where he works as an environmental biologist and heads the Mozambique side of the Limpopo Transnational Park. In 2007 he was the first African author to win the Latin Union Award for Romance Languages; in 2013 he was awarded the €100,000 Camões Prize for Literature, in recognition of his life's work. In 2014 he received the $50,000 Neustadt Prize for Literature, and in 2015 he was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMia Couto was born in 1955 in Mozambique and is the most prominent writer in Portuguese-speaking Africa. He has been active as a journalist and during the revolutionary struggle headed the AIM news agency. He now lives in Maputo where he works as an environmental biologist and runs the Mozambique part of the Kruger National Park.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslator\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cspan\u003eDavid Brookshaw is a London-born professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Bristol specializing in comparative literature, translation, and postcolonial Portuguese literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe has translated works by Mia Cuoto and Onésimo Almeida and compiled an anthology of stories by the Portuguese author José Rodrigues Miguéis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable id=\"productDetails_techSpec_section_1\" class=\"a-keyvalue prodDetTable\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"a-span3 prodDetSectionEntry a-text-bold\"\u003eLanguage\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"a-span9 a-align-center prodDetSectionEntry\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‎English \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"a-span3 prodDetSectionEntry a-text-bold\"\u003ePrint length\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"a-span9 a-align-center prodDetSectionEntry\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e256 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"a-span3 prodDetSectionEntry a-text-bold\"\u003eISBN-10\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"a-span9 a-align-center prodDetSectionEntry\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e185242897X\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"a-span3 prodDetSectionEntry a-text-bold\"\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"a-span9 a-align-center prodDetSectionEntry\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e978-1852428976\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"SAUDADE TORONTO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48684711903455,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1251\/1761\/files\/618FFDE0-DEE0-4945-99F2-5282E9868CFF.jpg?v=1774574650","url":"https:\/\/saudadetoronto.com\/products\/untitled-mar26_21-23","provider":"SAUDADE TORONTO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}