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The scintillating conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prize-winning Sands of the Emperor trilogy."[Couto's] life has been woven into the history of the nation, and he has become the foremost chronicler of Mozambique's antiheroes: its women, its peasants, even its dead." -Jacob Judah, The New York TimesIn The Drinker of Horizons, the award-winning author Mia Couto brings the epic love story between a young ...

Set against the backdrop of the war between the Kingdom of Gaza, one of the last great pre-colonial African kingdoms, and the Portuguese colonialists, a young African woman Imani and the Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo have shared an unexpected love. While Germano is left behind in Africa, serving with the Portuguese military, Imani is enlisted to serve as interpreter to the imprisoned emperor of Gaza, Ngungunyane, on the long voyage to Li...

The masterful conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prize-winning Sands of the Emperor Trilogy.In The Drinker of Horizons, the award-winning author Mia Couto brings the epic love story between the young African woman Imani and the Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo to its stirring close. We resume where The Sword and the Spear left off: While Germano is left behind in Africa, serving with the Portuguese mil...

The second novel in the exhilarating Sands of the Emperor trilogy, following the Man Booker International Prize finalist Woman of the AshesMozambique, 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 river Inhambane, so his lover Imani undertakes an arduous rescue mission, accompanied by her father and brother. Meanwhile, war rages ...

The first in a trilogy about the last emperor of southern Mozambique by one of Africa's most important writers.

In turn of the nineteenth century Mozambique, Imani's cultural identity and family life are torn apart by the shifts in the region, with the story of these events interwoven with history and folklore. Couto was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.

The first in a trilogy about the last emperor of southern Mozambique by one of Africa's most important writersSouthern Mozambique, 1894. Sergeant Germano de Melo is posted to the village of Nkokolani to oversee the Portuguese conquest of territory claimed by Ngungunyane, the last of the leaders of the state of Gaza, the second-largest empire led by an African. Ngungunyane has raised an army to resist colonial rule and with his warriors is slow...

Explodes the gulf between modern materialism and traditional values.

Mia Couto's first novel, judged one of the twelve best African books of the 20th century

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The first collection of essays in English by the winner of the 2013 Camões Prize and the 2014 Neustadt Prize.

Eleven when I saw a woman for the first time, I was seized by such surprise I burst into tears.