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Author Couto, Mia, 1955- author.

Title Confession of the lioness / Mia Couto ; translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F COUTO    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FICTION COUTO    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-COUTO    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description x, 192 pages ; 22 cm
Summary A dark, poetic mystery about the women of the remote village of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, Mia Couto's "Confession of the Lioness" reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting the women who live there
Subject Lion attacks -- Fiction.
Spirits -- Fiction.
Male domination (Social structure) -- Fiction.
Villages -- Mozambique -- Fiction.
Women -- Mozambique -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Subject Lion attacks. (OCoLC)fst00999315
Male domination (Social structure) (OCoLC)fst01741391
Spirits. (OCoLC)fst01130061
Villages. (OCoLC)fst01166969
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
Mozambique. (OCoLC)fst01214418
Added Author Brookshaw, David, translator.
Added Title Confissão da leoa. English
ISBN 9780374129231 (hardcover)
0374129231 (hardcover)
9780374710958 (e-book)
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