In his novels, Couto passionately and sensitively describes everyday life in poverty-stricken Mozambique. Couto adroitly captures the chaos and comedy of an abrupt and externally imposed shift in ideologies.
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No one gets off lightly The narrative shifts nimbly through a range of registers, from supple wordplay to lyricism. His novels bind national history to ancestral mythology. They are a vindication of how oral legends can be received in any language The story of the home is told in desperate cries, seductive whispers and childish laughter. The novel has much to teach about patriarchy and change in a pre-industrial, post- revolutionary society.
It shares, with the best fiction, mystery and revelation. A River called Time transports the reader to an island in which past, present and future co-exist, and the dead retain a vociferous presence.
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Brookshaw's task is made more exacting by the particular quality of Couto's brilliance" - New York Times. Mwanito's been living in a big-game park for eight years. The only people he knows are his father, his brother, an uncle, and a servant. He's been told that rest of the world is dead, that all roads are sad, that they wait for an apology from God.
In the place his father calls Jezoosalem, Mwanito has been told that crying and praying are the same thing. Both, it seems, are forbidden.
October 31, 2013
The 8th novel by NY Times-acclaimed Mia Couto, The Tuner of Silences is the story of Mwanito's struggle to reconstruct a family history that his father is unable to discuss. With the young woman's arrival in Jezoosalem, however, the silence of the past quickly breaks down, and both his father's story and the world are heard once more.
The Tuner of Silences was heralded as one of the most important books to be published in France in , and remains a shocking portrait of the intergenerational legacies of war. Available for the first time in English. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support?
Mwanito has been living in a former big-game park for eight years. The Tuner of Silences has been published to acclaim in more than half a dozen countries. Now in its first English translation, this story of an African boy's quest for the truth endures as a magical, humanizing confrontation between one child and the legacy of war.
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Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. What he doesn't know is that he is being forced to live in his father's world Or are they in a prison of his father's own design? I lived in a wasteland inhabited only by five men. My father had given the place a name. It was called, quite simply, Jezoosalem. It was the land where Jesus would uncrucify himself.
And that was the end of the matter, full stop.
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But after that, I'm afraid, I quickly lost my bearings. It soon becomes apparent that the outside world has not come to an end, and that Silvestre has fled to this deserted African game reserve with his two sons, brother in law, and factotum for reasons of his own adopting new names in the process. But the effect is nonetheless to plunge this reader into a post-apocalyptic genre which has always given me difficulty.
Silvestre is a tyrant, irascible, fearful, and increasingly mad. He appreciates Mwanito, his younger son and the narrator of the novel, because of his power to bring him the consolation of silence. I was the tuner of silences. But it is that of a much older Mwanito, who adds layers that the then-illiterate child could not have had words for.
Almost all through the book, there is an air of fantasy, so that you never quite know what is a metaphor, what real, what a dream, and what merely the product of Silvestre's encroaching madness. It is a great relief halfway through the book when a Portuguese woman appears, for she is someone who at least has recognizable roots in the real world. I found the third quarter of the book by far the most absorbing, as this woman's presence begins to act on the group of men. In the final quarter, the reasons for Silvestre's flight will become clear, and also how the woman is connected into their story.
But from a beginning which contained almost nothing that could unambiguously be labeled as fact, suddenly at the end the back-story comes pouring out with a wealth of detail that is almost too much. The poetic silences of the opening, unfortunately, are a thing of the past.
Misty Wells
Mia Couto is a distinguished writer from Mozambique. Though of European descent, he found an important position with the revolutionary government after the war of independence, and something of the legacy of those wars can be seen in the background of this novel, for those who know where to look.
But without that knowledge, it does not come over as a book that says much about a country, a time, or a people. So ordinary readers like me can only judge it as a literary creation of undoubted originality and feeling -- just one that does not happen to be to my taste. English Choose a language for shopping.
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