Every man is a race

Mia Couto

Original title: Cada homem é uma raça

earliest edition we have, 1990 Ndjira, 2008 182 pages

African writers series

'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 definitive judgement on the individual life, but only suggest its possibilities. Set in Mozambique, the stories reflect the legacy of Portuguese colonialism and the tragedy of...

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Cada homem é uma raça edition · 2008 · Ndjira · 182 pages
Every man is a race edition · 1994 · Heinemann · 118 pages
Cada homem é uma raça edition · 1990 · Caminho · 181 pages

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