Woman of the Ashes

by Mia Couto

Book Overview

The first in a trilogy about the last emperor of southern Mozambique by one of Africa's most important writers

Southern Mozambique, 1894. Sergeant Germano de Melo is posted to the village of Nkokolani to oversee the Portuguese conquest of territory claimed by Ngungunyane, the last of the leaders of the state of Gaza, the second-largest empire led by an African. Ngungunyane has raised an army to resist colonial rule and with his warriors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374292272
• ISBN13: 9780374292270
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.3"