Mia Couto

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1990
  • Latest Book:
    October 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Sands of the Emperor

1 - Woman of the Ashes (Apr-2018)
2 - The Sword and the Spear (Sep-2020)
3 - The Drinker of Horizons (Mar-2023)

Books in Order: 15 titles

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  • The Cartographer of Absences

    "Revelatory . . . An aching, dreamlike immersion." -- Carl Hoffman, The Washington Post "An intensely powerful work about revolution, compromise, and long-buried secrets . . . A haunting, compelling book." -- Tobias Carroll, Words Without BordersAn...

  • The Drinker of Horizons

    Sands of the Emperor - 3

    Longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary AwardThe scintillating conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prizeâ€"winning Sands of the Emperor trilogy.“[Couto’s] life has been woven into the history of the nation, a...

  • Sea Loves Me: Selected Stories

    An NPR Best Book of 2021New and selected fiction, over half in English for the first time, from the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize.Known internationally for his novels, Neustadt Prize-winner Mia Couto first became famous for his short stories. Sea...

  • The Sword and the Spear

    Sands of the Emperor - 2

    The second novel in the exhilarating Sands of the Emperor trilogy, following the Man Booker International Prize finalist Woman of the AshesMozambique, 1895. After an attack on his quarters, the defeated Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo needs to be...

  • Woman of the Ashes

    Sands of the Emperor - 1

    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 territ...

  • Rain: And Other Stories

    "Couto's work doesn't so much blur the generic and stylistic boundaries we normally draw as explode them.""The Boston Globe"

    This new collection of short fiction from Mia Couto, author of "Confession of the Lioness "(FSG, 2015), offers a stylist...

  • Confession of the Lioness

    A dark, poetic mystery about the tribal women of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them Told through two haunting interwoven diaries, Mia Couto's "Confession of the Lioness" reveals the enigmatic world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozamb...

  • The Tuner of Silences

    A RADIO FRANCE-CULTURE/TÉLÉRAMA BEST WORK OF FICTIONBY THE WINNER OF THE 2013 CAMÕES PRIZEAND THE WINNER OF THE 2014 NEUSTADT PRIZE“Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa."" -- Doris Lessing“By meshing the richness of African belie...

  • The Blind Fisherman

    "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 Cout...



  • A River Called Time

    "Extraordinary vision . . . his prose is suffused with striking images." -- The Washington Post

    "To read Mia Couto is to encounter a peculiarly African sensibility, a writer of fluid, fragmentary narratives . . . remarkable." -- The New Stat...

  • Under the Frangipani

    “An original and fresh tale, quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa. I enjoyed it very much.” -- Doris Lessing

    “A peculiarily African sensibility . . . a writer of fluid, fragmentary narratives. . . . Remarkable.” -- New ...

  • Sleepwalking Land

    Â"On almost every page of this witty magical realist whodunit, we sense Couto’s delight on those places where language slips officialdom’s asphyxiating grasp.” -- The New York Times Book Review on The Last Flight of the Flamingo

    Â"The...

  • The Last Flight of the Flamingo

    "A wonderful mix of magical realism and wordplay that has a similar tone to Márquez at his best. Couto writes in an idiom all his own that feels authentically African."―Ink

    In Mozambique after the end of the civil war, local soldiers have...

  • Every Man Is a Race

    'A man's story is always badly told. That's because a person never stops being born. Nobody leads one sole life, we are all multiplied into different and ever-changeable men.' So it is with all the stories in this collection, which never make a defin...

  • Voices Made Night

    The characters in these short stories - including the snake catcher who surrounds his lady's house with snakes and the man who scalds his wife with boiling water for fear that she is a witch - are all caught up in a landscape defined only by its cont...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mia Couto has published 15 books.

Mia Couto does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Cartographer of Absences, was published in October 2025.

The first book by Mia Couto, Voices Made Night, was published in July 1990.

Yes. Mia Couto has 1 series.
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