This study proposes an in-depth understanding of the Mozambican novel phenomenon, a literary genre that, for various reasons, proved to be late in the country. To this end, the history of Mozambican literature, which dates back to the colonial period, is implicated from its origins linked to the press to contemporaneity, in which the novel as a literary practice goes beyond short stories and poetry to become the most cultivated genre among the renowned writers from Mozambique. Thus, among other titles, the following novels will be more rigorously collated: Portagem (1966), by Orlando Mendes; Ventos do Apocalipse (1995), by Paulina Chiziane; O último voo do flamingo (2000), by Mia Couto; Campo de trânsito (2007), by João Paulo Borges Coelho ...