| Title |
El mapeador de ausencias
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| Names |
Couto, Mia.
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| Book Number |
DB129191
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| Title Status |
In Process
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| Language |
Spanish
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| Annotation |
"Diogo Santiago is a celebrated Mozambican poet and intellectual, a well-known professor at the university in his country's capital. In 2019, on the eve of a cyclone that will devastate the East African coast, he returns to his hometown of Beira to receive a tribute from his fellow citizens. As he travels across Mozambique, his mind returns to the past--to his own upbringing, and to the history of his country when it was still a Portuguese colony. Diogo's father, himself a poet and a journalist, observed a terrible massacre committed during the waning days of the Estado Novo and was persecuted by the PIDE, the Portuguese secret police. Diogo's reflections on his father's life are interspersed with found documents--letters, stories, entries in the journal kept by the PIDE agent who oversaw the case. As Cyclone Idai approaches Beira, threatening to wipe away the physical traces of the world in which he grew up, Diogo is forced to confront the impermanence of his own memories, too. A haunting novel of historical witness, The Cartographer of Absences is one of Mia Couto's finest works. Drawing on the author's own life in colonial Mozambique, this book is a significant new entry in the world literature canon." -- Provided by publisher.
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"Diogo Santiago, un prestigioso intelectual mozambiqueño, regresa tras años de ausencia a Beira, su ciudad natal, para recibir un homenaje. Allí conoce a Liana Campos, una mujer magnética y misteriosa con la que comparte un pasado aún por desentrañar. En el proceso, Diogo rememora el viaje que hizo con su padre a Inhaminga, territorio ocupado por las tropas coloniales portuguesas, en busca de un familiar desaparecido, y la huella de ese primer encuentro con la miseria y la guerra. Los recuerdos lo llevarán a perfilar la figura de su padre, poeta, mujeriego pero lleno de lealtad y coraje; la de su madre, impregnada por los versos de su marido, y las de otros personajes de infancia que lo ayudarán a iluminar sus propios enigmas. Sin proponérselo, Diogo servirá de apoyo a Liana en su cruzada por hallar las verdades de su historia, que comienza con una mujer cayendo al vacío desde lo alto de un edificio. Acompañándolos como un personaje más, la inminente presencia de un ciclón terminará de sacudir los cimientos del pasado de ambos." -- Proporcionada por la editorial. -- Some violence and some strong language. Spanish language. -- Traducido de la edición en portugués. Contiene algo de lenguaje ofensivo y algunas descripciones de violencia.
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| Medium |
Digital Books
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| Audience Notes |
Contains some strong language. NLS/BPH
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Contains some violence. NLS/BPH
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| Local Subject |
Novels
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Spanish, Fiction. (in Spanish) - SPAF
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Titles in Spanish - SPA
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Portuguese literature - 869
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Spanish & Portuguese Literature - 860
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| LC Subject |
Intellectuals - Mozambique - Fiction
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Mozambican fiction (Portuguese)
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Beira (Mozambique) - Fiction
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Autobiographical fiction
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Fiction
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Psychological fiction
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| Call Number |
869 AFI
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| Publication Info |
Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress,
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| Original Publication |
Recorded from: Barcelona : Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España, 2022. 9788420461366
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