The Sleepwalking Land takes place in modern Mozambique, a place ravaged for decades by war and famine.
Against this nightmarish backdrop, Mia Couto's poetic writing, drawing elements from the oral tradition of his homeland, transports us to a magical world where the boundaries between life and death, reality, imagination, and the supernatural are indistinguishable if not nonexistent.
The Sleepwalking Land, Mia Couto's first novel, has been hailed by critics as one of the finest examples of contemporary literature in the Portuguese language.