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Woman of the Ashes (Paperback)
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Woman of the Ashes (Paperback)
Series: Sands of the Emperor
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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 fifteen-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 spell
binding and unsettling account of war-torn Mozambique at the end of
the nineteenth century.
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