Mia Couto

Set during Mozambique's civil war, alternating between an old man and boy traveling through war-torn landscape and notebooks they find, blending magical realism with harsh reality.

UN peacekeepers are exploding in a small Mozambican town. An Italian inspector and local translator investigate a mystery blurring the natural and supernatural, satirizing foreign intervention in post-war Africa.

The ghost of a 100-year-old man investigates a murder inside a colonial fortress repurposed as a nursing home in post-independence Mozambique, a haunting meditation on memory, justice, and the inescapable presence of history.

A lioness is killing women in a remote village. An outsider hunter and the village headman's daughter try to understand the attacks in this haunting exploration of colonial wounds and gendered violence.

Couto's debut story collection — 21 stories of the Mozambican interior, blending myth, war memory, and everyday magical transformation. Launched one of the most distinctive voices in African literature.