Confession of the Lioness
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: x, 192 pages ; 22 cm
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
Subjects:
Lion attacks -- Fiction.
Spirits -- Fiction.
Male domination (Social structure) -- Fiction.
Villages -- Mozambique -- Fiction.
Women -- Mozambique -- Fiction.
Lion attacks -- Fiction.
Spirits -- Fiction.
Male domination (Social structure) -- Fiction.
Villages -- Mozambique -- Fiction.
Women -- Mozambique -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780374129231 (hardcover)