A River Called Time — Mia Couto

"Extraordinary vision . . . his prose is suffused with striking images." -- The Washington Post

"To read Mia Couto is to encounter a peculiarly African sensibility, a writer of fluid, fragmentary narratives . . . remarkable." -- The New Statesman

With a magical realism that blurs the boundaries between life and the afterlife in Mozambique, Mia Couto captures Africa today -- a brilliant dissonance of old and new sounds.