Sleepwalking land
By: Mia Couto ; translated by David Brookshaw
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781852428976; 9781770130517
Subjects: Fiction; War victims; History
Work titles: Terra sonâmbula
Description: "An old man and a young boy, refugees from a civil war, seek shelter in a burnt out bus. Among the belongings of a dead passenger, they discover a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, the tale gradually becomes part of their own lives. Set in Mozambique, the book examines the effects of war and devastation on a newly independent African nation and reflects a period in the history of Mozambique when the country could only go forward after settling its account with the bloody past"--From publisher description.
Notes: Translated from the Portuguese.

Translated from the Portuguese.
Table of contents: title: "An old man and a young boy, refugees from a civil war, seek shelter in a burnt out bus. Among the belongings of a dead passenger, they discover a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, the tale gradually becomes part of their own lives. Set in Mozambique, the book examines the effects of war and devastation on a newly independent African nation and reflects a period in the history of Mozambique when the country could only go forward after settling its account with the bloody past"; title: From publisher description.