{"product_id":"the-tuner-of-silences-9781926845951","title":"The Tuner of Silences","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mia Couto | David Brookshaw\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Biblioasis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Biblioasis\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA RADIO FRANCE-CULTURE\/T�L�RAMA BEST WORK OF FICTION\u003cbr\u003eBY THE FINALIST FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE\u003cbr\u003eTHE WINNER OF THE 2014 NEUSTADT PRIZE\u003cbr\u003eAND THE WINNER OF THE 2013 CAM�ES PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa.\"\"--\u003cb\u003eDoris Lessing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By meshing the richness of African beliefs . . . into the Western framework of the novel, he creates a mysterious and surreal epic.\"--\u003cb\u003eHenning Mankell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMwanito was eleven when he saw a woman for the first time, and the sight so surprised him he burst into tears.\u003cbr\u003eMwanito has been living in a former big-game park for eight years. The only people he knows are his father, his brother, an uncle, and a servant. He's been told that the rest of the world is dead, that all roads are sad, that they wait for an apology from God. In the place his father calls Jezoosalem, Mwanito has been told that crying and praying are the same thing. Both, it seems, are forbidden.\u003cbr\u003eThe eighth novel by the internationally bestselling Mia Couto, \u003ci\u003eThe Tuner of Silences\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Mwanito's struggle to reconstruct a family history that his father is unable to discuss. With the young woman's arrival in Jezoosalem, however, the silence of the past quickly breaks down, and both his father's story and the world are heard once more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tuner of Silences\u003c\/i\u003e has been published to acclaim in more than half a dozen countries. Now in its first English translation, this story of an African boy's quest for the truth endures as a magical, humanizing confrontation between one child and the legacy of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47572420329623,"sku":"9781926845951","price":1667.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781926845951.webp?v=1774889819","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-tuner-of-silences-9781926845951","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}