Set against the backdrop of the war between the Kingdom of Gaza,
one of the last great pre-colonial African kingdoms, and the
Portuguese colonialists, a young African woman Imani and the
Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo have shared an unexpected love.
While Germano is left behind in Africa, serving with the Portuguese
military, Imani is enlisted to serve as interpreter to the
imprisoned emperor of Gaza, Ngungunyane, on the long voyage to
Lisbon. For Ngungunyane and his seven wives, it will be a journey
of no return. Whereas Imani will come back only after a decade-long
odyssey through the Portuguese empire at the turn of the nineteenth
century. In the third novel of his acclaimed Sands of the Emperor
trilogy, Couto supplies a voice to those silenced by the horrors of
colonialism. As he depicts the beauty and terror of war and love,
and reveals the devastation of a profoundly unequal clash of
cultures, he gives a uniquely personal voice to a little-known
period of history.
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