A dark, poetic mystery about the tribal women of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them Told through two haunting interwoven diaries, Mia Couto's Confession of the Lioness reveals the enigmatic world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting and killing the women who live there. Mariamar,...(展开全部)

A dark, poetic mystery about the tribal women of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them Told through two haunting interwoven diaries, Mia Couto's Confession of the Lioness reveals the enigmatic world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting and killing the women who live there. Mariamar,...(展开全部)

Mariamar, a woman whose sister was killed in a lioness attack, finds her life thrown into chaos when the outsider Archangel Bullseye, the marksman hired to kill the lionesses, arrives at the request of the village elders. Archangel tracks the lionesses in the wilderness, but the hunt grows more dangerous, until it's no safer inside Kulumani than outside it. As the men of Kuluma...(展开全部)

米亚·科托（Mia Couto）,莫桑比克诗人、小说家，当今非洲葡萄牙语文学的中坚力量。十四岁开始在报刊发表诗歌，已出版作品三十多部，译成二十三种语言，长篇小说处女作《梦游之地》入选“20世纪最伟大的12部非洲小说”，2013年获葡语文学最高奖项卡蒙斯文学奖，与萨拉马戈 同等殊荣；2014年击败村上春树，获得有“美国诺贝尔文学奖”之称的纽斯塔特国际文学奖；2015年凭《耶稣撒冷》入围布克国际文学奖，2017年，最新作品《母狮的忏悔》入选都柏林文学奖短名单，被认为是近年来诺贝尔奖最有力竞争者。他开创性地将葡萄牙语与莫桑比克民族性相融合，使非洲文学焕发出前所未有的新生机。

Mariamar, a woman whose sister was killed in a lioness attack, finds her life thrown into chaos when the outsider Archangel Bullseye, the marksman hired to kill the lionesses, arrives at the request of the village elders. Archangel tracks the lionesses in the wilderness, but the hunt grows more dangerous, until it's no safer inside Kulumani than outside it. As the men of Kuluma...(展开全部)

米亚·科托（Mia Couto）,莫桑比克诗人、小说家，当今非洲葡萄牙语文学的中坚力量。十四岁开始在报刊发表诗歌，已出版作品三十多部，译成二十三种语言，长篇小说处女作《梦游之地》入选“20世纪最伟大的12部非洲小说”，2013年获葡语文学最高奖项卡蒙斯文学奖，与萨拉马戈 同等殊荣；2014年击败村上春树，获得有“美国诺贝尔文学奖”之称的纽斯塔特国际文学奖；2015年凭《耶稣撒冷》入围布克国际文学奖，2017年，最新作品《母狮的忏悔》入选都柏林文学奖短名单，被认为是近年来诺贝尔奖最有力竞争者。他开创性地将葡萄牙语与莫桑比克民族性相融合，使非洲文学焕发出前所未有的新生机。

The atmosphere of Bleak House, the sensuous thrill of Perfume, and the mystery of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell all combine in a story of murder, deceit, love, and revenge in Victorian England. "After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper." So begins the extraordinary story of Edward Glyver—booklover, scholar, and murderer. As a yo...(展开全部)

"Superb.... An engrossing and complicated tale...that touches on every aspect of Victorian society."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World "After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper." So begins the "enthralling" ( Booklist , starred review) and "ingenious" ( Boston Globe ) story of Edward Glyver, booklover, scholar, and ...(展开全部)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: n He Shook hands with me: "Well, there you are, on your own, appointed officially under my responsibility." He was actually walking with me to the door. What a distance off it seemed I moved like ...(展开全部)

约瑟夫•康拉德，波兰裔英国作家，早年间是一名海员，在二十多岁时仍无法流利地使用英语，然而，他以非母语使用者的身份，为英语文学注入了独特的敏锐情感，其代表作《黑暗的心》《吉姆爷》在英国文学史上有突出的地位，成为影响了老舍、海明威、博尔赫斯、卡尔维诺、马尔克斯、艾略特、伍尔夫、贝娄、奈保尔等大批名家的文体大师。