Product Description: The poetic series of black and white photographs taken in Maputo, Mozambique, captures the existence of street children: the adversity of their environments, the endurance of their young but possibly condemned bodies, and their resilience that, daily, defies the inhumanity of their hardships...read more

Product Description: BY THE FINALIST FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZETHE WINNER OF THE 2014 NEUSTADT PRIZEAND THE WINNER OF THE 2013 CAMÕES PRIZE"One of the greatest living writers in the Portuguese language."—Philip Graham, The Millions"Subtle and elegant...read more

Product Description: The Blind Fisherman is a compilation of Mia Couto’s early short stories—as first presented to the English-speaking world in his two collections: Voices Made Night (1990) and Every Man is a Race (1994). It was in these collections that Mia Couto first announced himself as a writer of international importance, constructing stories that blended the unique history of Mozambique with a magic realism that both transcended and was inspired by the legacy of Portuguese colonialism and the subsequent civil war...read more

Product Description: Un medico portugues llega a un pequeno pueblo africano buscando a la mujer que lo abandono por razones misteriosas. Antes de instalarse en su enfermeria, verdadera residencia de malos espiritus, comprende que la respuesta la tiene una pareja de ancianos taimados y recelosos, que necesitan de su ayuda: ella hechicera, el un viejo lobo de mar ahora agonizante...read more

Product Description: Looking Africa in the face.  An homage to the continent of contrasts   ""In the footsteps of courage and catastrophe [...] – a 30-year journey across the dark continent by the world’s greatest photojournalist."" - The Sunday Times Magazines, London Sebastião Salgado is one the most respected photojournalists working today, his reputation forged by decades of dedication and powerful black-and-white images of distressed people taken in places where most wouldn’t dare to go...read more

Coming back from the dead, the narrator turns into a night spirit and inhabits the head of a Mozambican police inspector who is investigating a surreal murder. But could the true victim be traditional African beliefs and a way of life ravaged first by Portuguese colonialism, then by civil war ,and finally by Western materialism? Using both fable and allegory, Mia Couto creates a mysterious and surreal epic that brilliantly captures the spirit of post-independence Africa.Mia Couto was born in Beira, Mozambique in 1955. During the years after the independence of his country in 1975, he was the director of the Mozambican Information Agency and the newspaper Noticias. He currently lives in Maputo where he works as an agronomist.

Product Description: Empathy and ecstasy: An homage to Africa's people and wildlife   Sebastião Salgado is one the most respected photojournalists working today, his reputation forged by decades of dedication and powerful black-and-white images of dispossessed and distressed people taken in places where most wouldn’t dare to go...read more