Sleepwalking Land
work by Couto
Also known as: “Terra somnâbula”
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African literature
- In African literature: Portuguese
…Couto wrote Terra sonâmbula (1992; Sleepwalking Land); its publication was a major event in prose writing in Mozambique. Couto moves between reality and fantasy in his writing. In A varanda de frangipani (1996; Under the Frangipani), for instance, a man returns from the dead to become a spirit that moves…
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