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by Mia Couto

  • Narrated by: Joel Richards
  • Series: Sands of the Emperor, Book 1
  • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
  • Release date: 09-25-18
  • Language: English

The first in a trilogy about the last emperor of southern Mozambique by one of Africa’s most important writers.

Southern Mozambique, 1894. Sergeant Germano de Melo is posted to the village of Nkokolani to oversee the Portuguese conquest of territory claimed by Ngungunyane, the last of the leaders of the state of Gaza, the second-largest empire led by an African. Ngungunyane has raised an army to resist colonial rule and with his warriors is slowly approaching the border village. Desperate for help, Germano enlists Imani, a 15-year-old girl, to act as his interpreter. She belongs to the VaChopi tribe, one of the few who dared side with the Portuguese. 

But while one of her brothers fights for the Crown of Portugal, the other has chosen the African emperor. Standing astride two kingdoms, Imani is drawn to Germano, just as he is drawn to her. But she knows that in a country haunted by violence, the only way out for a woman is to go unnoticed, as if made of shadows or ashes.

Alternating between the voices of Imani and Germano, Mia Couto’s Woman of the Ashes combines vivid folkloric prose with extensive historical research to give a spellbinding and unsettling account of war-torn Mozambique at the end of the 19th century.

Additional information

Author

David Brookshaw – translator, Mia Couto

Language

English

Length

9 hrs and 40 mins

Narrated by

Bahni Turpin, Joel Richards

Release date

09-25-18

Series

Sands of the Emperor, Book 1

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