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Mia Couto's name recognition among readers, booksellers, and librarians in the states has skyrocketed since FSG's publication of his novel Confession of the Lioness in July 2015. This is the first short story collection to follow the success of that novel.Mia was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, and won the prestigious Neustadt Prize for Literature. Hisworks have been translated into 20 languages and have sold 25 million copies worldwideWidely regarded as one of Africa's foremost contemporary novelists, comparable to Coetzee