Confissão da Leoa

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Confissão da Leoa is a novel by Mozambican writer Mia Couto that blends myth, realism, and social critique to explore violence, gender, and tradition in a remote African village.

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Confissão da Leoa canonical 1

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instanceOf novel
addressesIssue domestic violence
political marginalization
religious syncretism
rural poverty
women's oppression
author Mia Couto NERFINISHED
centralCharacter Archangel Bullseye NERFINISHED
Hanifa Assulua NERFINISHED
Mariamar NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Mozambique NERFINISHED
EnglishTitle The Tuner of Silences NERFINISHED
genre literary fiction
magic realism
social novel
hasSymbol lion as symbol of repressed female rage
lion as symbol of violence
hasTranslation English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
other languages
influencedBy African oral storytelling traditions
postcolonial literature
languageVariant Mozambican Portuguese NERFINISHED
literaryAwardNomination shortlists and prizes in Lusophone literary circuits
literaryMovement Lusophone African literature
literaryStyle blend of myth and realism
lyrical prose
literaryTechnique allegory
metaphor
nonlinear narrative
mainTheme colonial and postcolonial power
gender-based violence
myth and reality
patriarchy
tradition and modernity
narrativePerspective first-person narration
multiple narrators
originalLanguage Portuguese
partOf Mia Couto bibliography
plotElement confrontation between tradition and state authority
government sends a hunter to kill lions
series of lion attacks on women
publisher Caminho NERFINISHED
setting fictional village of Kulumani
remote village in northern Mozambique

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Mia Couto notableWork Confissão da Leoa