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03329aam a2200505 i 4500 001 F42010623D8C11EE8AE814B62EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230818010103 008 201217t20212020nyu e 000 f eng d 020 $a 1250800099 020 $a 9781250800091 035 $a (OCoLC)1227086663 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d DMM $d OCLCF $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a f-mz--- 082 04 $a 869.3/5 $2 23 100 1 $a Couto, Mia, $d 1955- $e author. 240 10 $a Espada e azagaia. $l English 245 14 $a The sword and the spear / $c Mia Couto ; translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw. 250 $a First Picador paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Picador, $c 2021. 300 $a x, 273 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Sands of the Emperor: a Mozambican trilogy ; $v book two 520 $a "Mozambique, 1895. After an attack on his quarters, the defeated Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo needs to be taken to the hospital. The only one within reach is along the Inharrime River, so his lover, Imani, undertakes an arduous rescue mission, accompanied by her father and brother. Meanwhile, war rages between the Portuguese occupiers and Ngungunyane's warriors--battles waged with sword and spear, until the arrival of a devastating new weapon destined to secure European domination. Germano wants to start a new life with Imani, but the Portuguese military has other plans for the injured soldier. And Imani's father has his own plan for his daughter's future: as one of Ngungunyane's wives, she would be close enough to the tyrant to avenge the destruction of their village. With elegance and compassion, Mia Couto's The Sword and the Spear--the second volume in the prizewinning Sands of the Emperor trilogy--illustrates the futility of war and the porous boundaries between apparently foreign culture, boundaries which entire societies, but also friends and lovers, perceive to be both intractable and in decline." -- $c Back cover. 500 $a "Originally published in Portuguese in 2016 by Editorial Caminho, Portugal, as A espada e azagaia ; English translation published in the United States in 2020 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux" -- Title page verso. 546 $a Text in English, translated from the Portuguese. 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 650 0 $a Man-woman relationships $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Colonization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00868483 650 7 $a Families. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01728849 650 7 $a Man-woman relationships. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01007080 651 0 $a Gaza Province (Mozambique) $x Colonization $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Gaza Province (Mozambique) $x History $y 19th century $v Fiction. 651 7 $a Mozambique $z Gaza Province. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01254214 655 7 $a Epistolary fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726597 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726640 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Epistolary fiction. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Brookshaw, David, $e translator. 800 1 $a Couto, Mia, $d 1955- $t Areias do imperador. $l English ; $v 2. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117013452.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F42010623D8C11EE8AE814B62EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search