{"product_id":"9781927428023","title":"The Tuner of Silences","description":"\u003cb\u003eA RADIO FRANCE-CULTURE\/TÉLÉRAMA BEST WORK OF FICTION\u003cbr\u003eBY THE WINNER OF THE 2013 CAMÕES PRIZE\u003cbr\u003eAND THE WINNER OF THE 2014 NEUSTADT PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa.\"\"—\u003cb\u003eDoris Lessing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“By meshing the richness of African beliefs . . . into the Western framework of the novel, he creates a mysterious and surreal epic.”—\u003cb\u003eHenning Mankell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMwanito was eleven when he saw a woman for the first time, and the sight so surprised him he burst into tears.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMwanito has been living in a former big-game park for eight years. The only people he knows are his father, his brother, an uncle, and a servant. He’s been told that the rest of the world is dead, that all roads are sad, that they wait for an apology from God. In the place his father calls Jezoosalem, Mwanito has been told that crying and praying are the same thing. Both, it seems, are forbidden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe eighth novel by the internationally bestselling Mia Couto, \u003ci\u003eThe Tuner of Silences\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Mwanito’s struggle to reconstruct a family history that his father is unable to discuss. With the young woman’s arrival in Jezoosalem, however, the silence of the past quickly breaks down, and both his father’s story and the world are heard once more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tuner of Silences\u003c\/i\u003e has been published to acclaim in more than half a dozen countries. Now in its first English translation, this story of an African boy's quest for the truth endures as a magical, humanizing confrontation between one child and the legacy of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR MIA COUTO\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“On almost every page … we sense Couto’s delight in those places where language slips officialdom’s asphyxiating grasp.”—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Even in translation, his prose is suffused with striking images.”—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR DAVID BROOKSHAW\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"David Brookshaw dexterously renders the novel's often colloquial, pithy Portuguese into lively English. Brookshaw's task is made more exacting by the particular quality of Couto's brilliance.”—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158547906800,"sku":"9781927428023","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781927428023_p0.jpg?v=1763636103","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781927428023","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}