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100 1  Couto, Mia,|d1955- 
240 10 Short stories.|kSelections.|lEnglish 
245 10 Rain & other stories /|cMia Couto ; translated from the 
       Portuguese by Eric M.B. Becker. 
264  1 Windsor, Ontario :|bBiblioasis,|c2018. 
300    163 pages ;|c18 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Biblioasis international translation series ;|v25 
505 0  The waters of time -- Novidade's flowers -- Blind 
       Estrelinho -- The delivery -- The perfume -- Virgilio's 
       heel -- Rain -- Felizbento's pipe -- The flag in the 
       sunset -- Ninety-three -- Jorojão's cradle of memories -- 
       Lamentations of a coconut tree -- Beyond the river bend --
       Serpent's embrace -- High-heel shoes -- The hapless 
       calculus of happiness -- Joãotónio, for now -- That devil 
       of an advocate -- War of the clowns -- Legend of Namaroi -
       - The woman engulfed in stone -- Drinking the time by -- 
       The deaf father -- The oracle of death -- The shadow's 
       departure -- Square of the gods. 
520    "Mia Couto, winner of the Neustadt International Prize, 
       and a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, 
       first became famous as a writer of enchanting short 
       stories. In Rain and Other Stories, one of his most 
       appealing collections, here available in English for the 
       first time, the borders that separate people melt as a 
       poor African country emerges from sixteen years of civil 
       war and assumes its identity as an independent nation. In 
       these playful, poignant stories of ordinary people, the 
       African oral tale merges into the contemporary short story,
       magic blends with realism, and the boundaries between 
       Africans and Europeans, men and women, and even the living
       and the dead, yield before a joyous mixing. Amid visions 
       of water and rain, fishermen and farmers, spiritualists 
       and lovers, experience sparkling new ways of renewing life
       in a country that is being reborn."--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
530    Issued also in electronic format. 
600 10 Couto, Mia,|d1955-|vTranslations into English. 
600 17 Couto, Mia,|d1955-|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00226407 
655  0 Translations. 
655  7 Short stories.|2lcgft 
655  7 Translations.|2fast 
700 1  Becker, Eric M. B,|etranslator. 
776 1  Couto, Mia, 1955-|sShort stories. Selections. English
       |tRain & other stories./|dWindsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, 
       2018.|kBiblioasis international translation series
       |kBiblioasis international translation series ;
       |w(CaOONL)20169079511|w(OCoLC)966404627 
830  0 Biblioasis international translation series ;|vno. 25. 
994    C0|bCKE