Confession of the lioness
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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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Read for “A World of Adventure by Book” online book club. August 2020
I...hated this.
Mozambique book around the world.
I think I'm just getting really over authors using a time period/difficult region and violence to make a story.
Women's oppression and mystical lionesses that haunt and hunt a village in Mozambique. It's a fragmented poetic tale told from 2 perspectives. The focused solitude of the hunter, and the forced solitude of the violated and silenced girl, both finding an escape in the power of words.
I liked this for it's magical realism that left a lot of ambiguities. It could have been a bit more linear in the narration timeline and a bit less mystical with its words, but I can also blame my easy audiobook-distractibility.
