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Sleepwalking Land

Sleepwalking Land Paperback - 2006

by Mia Couto

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Paperback. New. Tells the story of an old man and a young boy, refugees from a civil war, who seek shelter in a burnt out bus. Among the effects of a dead passenger, they discover a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, the tale gradually becomes part of their own lives.
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Details

  • Title Sleepwalking Land
  • Author Mia Couto
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First English La
  • Condition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Serpent's Tail, London
  • Date 2006-04-01
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9781852428976
  • ISBN 9781852428976 / 185242897X
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1980's
    • Cultural Region: Southern Africa
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006483416
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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War had killed the road thereabouts.

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Citations

  • New York Times, 07/30/2006, Page 19
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/06/2006, Page 44

About the author

Mia 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.