The Tuner of Silences

A RADIO FRANCE-CULTURE/TÉLÉRAMA BEST WORK OF FICTION
BY THE FINALIST FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
THE WINNER OF THE 2014 NEUSTADT PRIZE
AND THE WINNER OF THE 2013 CAMÕES PRIZE

“Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa."— Doris Lessing

“By meshing the richness of African beliefs . . . into the Western framework of the novel, he creates a mysterious and surreal epic.”— Henning Mankell

Mwanito was eleven when he saw a wo…