Confession of the lioness

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Title:

Confession of the lioness

Author:

Couto, Mia, 1955- author.

Personal Author:

Couto, Mia, 1955- author.

Uniform Title:

Confissão da leoa. English

Edition:

First American edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

Physical Description:

x, 192 pages ; 22 cm

Summary:

A dark, poetic mystery about the women of the remote village of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them. Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, Mia Couto's "Confession of the Lioness" reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting the women who live there

Language:

English

Subject Term:

Lion attacks -- Fiction.

Spirits -- Fiction.

Male domination (Social structure) -- Fiction.

Villages -- Mozambique -- Fiction.

Women -- Mozambique -- Fiction.

Added Author:

Brookshaw, David,

ISBN:

9780374129231