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“Quelimane” as a book category gathers works—fiction, memoir, poetry, and narrative nonfiction—that inhabit river‑to‑sea thresholds and the cultural crosscurrents of Mozambique’s coastal city and the wider Indian Ocean world. These books foreground multilingual, polyphonic voices and hybrid forms, braiding oral tradition with lyrical realism to explore migration, trade, faith, and memory amid mangroves, monsoons, and tidal streets. Themes of postcolonial inheritance, ecological precarity, and everyday resilience recur; characters move between river villages and a cosmopolitan port, carrying capulana cloth, cashew smoke, and dhow-borne stories. Stylistically, “Quelimane” favors sensorial, tide-paced prose, code-switching across Portuguese, local languages, and Swahili, and an ethic of repair that honors entangled Arab, Indian, African, and Lusophone histories. Above all, it spotlights life at the brackish edge where worlds meet and remap one another.

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