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Confession of the lioness: [a novel]

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Author:
Couto, Mia, 1955-
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Pub. Date:
2015.
Language:
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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Lion attacks
Lion attacks -- Fiction
Male domination (Social structure)
Male domination (Social structure) -- Fiction
Spirits
Spirits -- Fiction
Suspense fiction
Villages
Villages -- Mozambique -- Fiction
Women
Women -- Mozambique -- Fiction
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Contributors:
Brookshaw, David,translator.
ISBN:
9780374129231
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Male domination (Social structure)
Spirits
Villages
Women