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A RADIO FRANCE-CULTURE/T L RAMA BEST WORK OF FICTION, 2011 Praise for The Tuner of Silences "Mia Couto, long regarded as one of the leading writers in Mozambique, has now been recognized as one of the greatest living writers in the Portuguese language . The Tuner of Silences cracks open a welcoming window onto a vast world of literary pleasures that has for too long remained under the radar in the English-speaking world."-Philip Graham, The Millions "Lovers of African literature may find resonance here between Couto's writing and J.M. Coetzee's new novel, The Childhood of Jesus. Both turn away from the present to reflect on the ethics of our interactions with others and the parameters of our internal worlds. While Couto's work is ultimately more joyful, The Tuner of Silences remains a sad novel of poetic brilliance - haunting in its human landscape."-The Independent "David Brookshaw's lyrical translation of Mia Couto's Portuguese lull[s] us into a hypnotized semi-acceptance of [an] impossible universe . Couto's narrative tone, at once deadpan and beguiling, and his virtuoso management of time, place him alongside the best Latin American magic realists."-Times Literary Supplement "A fine portrait of grief and loss ... and a strange fever-dream that jolts in and out of fantasy."-The Globe & Mail "To understand what makes Ant nio "Mia" Em lio Leite Couto special - even extraordinary - we have to loosen our grip on the binary that distinguishes between "the West" and "Africa." Couto is "white" without not being African, and as an "African" writer he's one of the most important figures in a global Lusophone literature that stretches across three continents. The Tuner of Silences is an instantly recognizable part of this oeuvre . We begin with the magic, with fantasy, with the impossible, and we steadily discover, in the end, that it never really was, that it always was what we were trying to pretend it wasn't. There is no mag
