Confession of the lioness
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date:
©2015,©2012
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First American edition
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English
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A dark, poetic mystery about the women of the remote village of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, Mia Couto's "Confession of the Lioness" reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting the women who live there
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9780374129231
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| Last Grouping Update | 2025-07-06 11:03:42AM |
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Lion attacks -- Fiction
Male domination (Social structure) -- Fiction
Spirits -- Fiction
Villages -- Mozambique -- Fiction
Women -- Mozambique -- Fiction
Male domination (Social structure) -- Fiction
Spirits -- Fiction
Villages -- Mozambique -- Fiction
Women -- Mozambique -- Fiction
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Confession of the lioness
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Confession of the lioness / Mia Couto ; translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw
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Confession of the lioness
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Lion attacks
Male domination (Social structure)
Spirits
Villages
Women
Male domination (Social structure)
Spirits
Villages
Women
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