Mia Couto

The Tuner of Silences

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A RADIO FRANCE-CULTURE/TÉLÉRAMA BEST WORK OF FICTIONBY THE WINNER OF THE 2013 CAMÕES PRIZEAND THE WINNER OF THE 2014 NEUSTADT PRIZE“Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa.""—Doris Lessing“By meshing the richness of African beliefs . . . into the Western framework of the novel, he creates a mysterious and surreal epic.”—Henning MankellMwanito was eleven when he saw a woman for the first time, and the sight so surprised him he burst into tears.Mwanito has been living in a former big-game park for eight years. The only people he knows are his father, his brother, an uncle, and a servant. He’s been told that the rest of the world is dead, that all roads are sad, that they wait for an apology from God. In the place his father calls Jezoosalem, Mwanito has been told that crying and praying are the same thing. Both, it seems, are forbidden.The eighth novel by the internationally bestselling Mia Couto, The Tuner of Silences is the story of Mwanito’s struggle to reconstruct a family history that his father is unable to discuss. With the young woman’s arrival in Jezoosalem, however, the silence of the past quickly breaks down, and both his father’s story and the world are heard once more.The Tuner of Silences has been published to acclaim in more than half a dozen countries. Now in its first English translation, this story of an African boy's quest for the truth endures as a magical, humanizing confrontation between one child and the legacy of war.PRAISE FOR MIA COUTO“On almost every page … we sense Couto’s delight in those places where language slips officialdom’s asphyxiating grasp.”—The New York Times“Even in translation, his prose is suffused with striking images.”—The Washington PostPRAISE FOR DAVID BROOKSHAW“David Brookshaw dexterously renders the novel's often colloquial, pithy Portuguese into lively English. Brookshaw's task is made more exacting by the particular quality of Couto's brilliance.”—The New York Times
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222 printed pages
Original publication
2013
Publication year
2013
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  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted4 years ago
    past was an illness and memories a punishment.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted4 years ago
    Terror at loving you in such a fragile place as the world.

    Woe at loving you in this imperfect place

    Where everything leaves us broken and silent

    Where everything deceives and divides us.

    Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted4 years ago
    Standing there, I faced the road as if it were cutting me in half as it passed under the vehicle, separating joy from sadness.
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