Mia Couto
Praise for Confession of the Lioness
Somber and masterfully wrought... Sings with the musical nuance of a poem
LA Times
Written in prose both aphoristic and lush, which suggests rural speech yet creates a far richer texture, Confession of the Lioness opens as an exploration of a crisis that has multiple roots yet reaches a den ...
Stephen Henighan, The Times Literary Supplement
A passionate denunciation of patriarchy and violence against women in an east African village... A radical call for change framed in a semitraditional form; a book of profound disenchantment written in language that ...
Hedley Twidle, Financial Times
Somber and masterfully wrought... Sings with the musical nuance of a poem
LA Times
Written in prose both aphoristic and lush, which suggests rural speech yet creates a far richer texture, Confession of the Lioness opens as an exploration of a crisis that has multiple roots yet reaches a den ...
Stephen Henighan, The Times Literary Supplement
A passionate denunciation of patriarchy and violence against women in an east African village... A radical call for change framed in a semitraditional form; a book of profound disenchantment written in language that ...
Hedley Twidle, Financial Times
Somber and masterfully wrought... Sings with the musical nuance of a poem
LA Times
Written in prose both aphoristic and lush, which suggests rural speech yet creates a far richer texture, Confession of the Lioness opens as an exploration of a crisis that has multiple roots yet reaches a den ...
Stephen Henighan, The Times Literary Supplement
A passionate denunciation of patriarchy and violence against women in an east African village... A radical call for change framed in a semitraditional form; a book of profound disenchantment written in language that ...
Hedley Twidle, Financial Times