The Last Flight of the Flamingo

The civil war in Mozambique has ended but still the local soldiers are being hit by the landmines that litter the ground. Alongside representatives of central government and UN officials is an Italian, Massimo Risi, who has been charged with the business of finding out what happened.

Author: Mia Couto
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 05/01/2005
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781852428136
ISBN10: 1852428139
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
Mia Couto was born in 1955 in Mozambique and is the most prominent writer in Portuguese-speaking Africa. He has been active as a journalist and during the revolutionary struggle headed the AIM news agency. He now lives in Maputo where he works as an environmental biologist and runs the Mozambique part of the Kruger National Park.