The Drinker of Horizons - Sands of the Emperor (Volume 3)

The scintillating conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prize–winning Sands of the Emperor trilogy.
“[Couto’s]
life has been woven into the history of the nation, and he has become
the foremost chronicler of Mozambique’s antiheroes: its women, its
peasants, even its dead.” —Jacob Judah, The New York Times
In The Drinker of Horizons,
the award-winning author Mia Couto brings the epic love story between a
young Mozambican woman named Imani and the Portuguese sergeant Germano
de Melo to its moving close. We resume where The Sword and the Spear
concluded: While Germano is left behind in Africa, serving with the
Portuguese military, Imani has been enlisted to act as the interpreter
to the imprisoned emperor of Gaza, Ngungunyane, on the long voyage to
Lisbon. For the emperor and his seven wives, it will be a journey of no
return. Imani’s own return will come only after a decade-long odyssey
through the Portuguese empire at the beginning of the twentieth century.
If history is always narrated by the victors, in The Drinker of Horizons,
Couto performs an act of restorative justice, giving a voice to those
silenced by the horrors of colonialism. Throughout, Couto’s language
astonishes, rendering with utter clarity the beauty and terror of war
and love, and revealing the devastation of a profoundly unequal
encounter between cultures.