Confession of the Lioness: A Novel
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An Amazon Best Book of July 2015: Mia Couto, a prominent and award-winning African writer, has written a novel that shimmers like a diamond in the rough. Many years ago, a small village in Mozambique was hunted by lions. The lions killed dozens and eventually a hunter was hired to destroy the feline menace. Couto’s fable-like tale alternates between the stories of a young woman in the village and the hunter who is haunted by his past and his profession. As the days pass, the threat of the lion seems to go beyond the material world and like the people in the town you begin to wonder: are the lions real or are
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release date: 14 July 2015
ISBN-10 : 0374129231 | ISBN-13: 9780374129231
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Release date: 14 July 2015
ISBN-10 : 0374129231 | ISBN-13: 9780374129231