The Drinker Of Horizons av Mia Couto

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<p><b>Longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award</b><br><b><br>The scintillating conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prize</b>¿<b>winning Sands of the Emperor trilogy.</b><br><br><b>¿[Couto¿s] life has been woven into the history of the nation, and he has become the foremost chronicler of Mozambique¿s antiheroes: its women, its peasants, even its dead.¿ ¿Jacob Judah, <i>The New York Times</i><br><br></b>In <i>The Drinker of Horizons</i>, the award-winning author Mia Couto brings the epic love story between a young Mozambican woman named Imani and the Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo to its moving close. We resume where <i>The Sword and the Spear</i> concluded: While Germano is left behind in Africa, serving with the Portuguese military, Imani has been enlisted to act as the interpreter to the imprisoned emperor of Gaza, Ngungunyane, on the long voyage to Lisbon. For the emperor and his seven wives, it will be a journey of no return. Imani¿s o