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02492aam a22004698i 4500 001 DCA5C2D6370411E887D7D95B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190328032346 008 171002s2018 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2017038332 020 $a 0374292272 020 $a 9780374292270 035 $a (OCoLC)988053520 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d ORX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h por 042 $a pcc 043 $a f-mz--- 050 00 $a PQ9939 C68 M8513 2018 100 1 $a Couto, Mia, $d 1955- $e author. 240 10 $a Mulheres de cinza. $l English 245 10 $a Woman of the ashes / $c Mia Couto ; translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw. 250 $a First American edition. 263 $a 1804 264 1 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c 2018. 300 $a pages cm 520 $a 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 is slowly approaching the border village. Desperate for help, Germano enlists Imani, a fifteen-year-old girl, to act as his interpreter. She belongs to the VaChopi tribe, one of the few who dared side with the Portuguese. But while one of her brothers fights for the Crown of Portugal, the other has chosen the African emperor. Standing astride two kingdoms, Imani is drawn to Germano, just as he is drawn to her. But she knows that in a country haunted by violence, the only way out for a woman is to go unnoticed, as if made of shadows or ashes. 651 0 $a Mozambique $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Brookshaw, David, $e translator. 941 $a 11 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702022911.0 952 $l UGPF911 $d 20231207021753.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020012005.0 952 $l HOPC845 $d 20200310035228.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190702012439.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006114728.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720050853.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20180602010817.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20180512010053.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180502011911.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20180501010856.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DCA5C2D6370411E887D7D95B97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search