5/10/2023 0 Comments Mia couto rain and other stories![]() His language is as lyrical as his thought and the books I’ve enjoyed most shift almost imperceptibly back and forth between African memories and European presents. I’ve read many books by Lobo Antunes, a physician who fought in the Angolan war. ![]() I’ve spent a few wonderful days now with Rain and Other Stories and want to share with you the experience of reading this man’s work with Lobo Antunes in the background. And I wanted more, so I turned to my shelf of books to review and found Mia Couto, a writer from Mozambique who also writes in Portuguese. Even after leafing through a few chapters in random order, I could feel myself restored. Failure to read good books generally puts me in a state of existential crisis, so I decided to return to an old favorite-Portuguese author António Lobo Antunes. ![]() And found myself without anything to read. After reading more of Bolaño’s 2666 than I ever should have, I cleaned my bookshelves of all the to-read have-tos that I’ve held on to for far too long. ![]()
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