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A fascinating memoir-of-sorts from the legendary writer & campaigner for human rights: Quicksand is a collection of micro-essays exploring what it is to be human, covering topics as varied as Henning''s cancer diagnosis, art, jealousy, Ice Ages past and present, and the future of our planet.In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer.However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction, but about what it means to be human. I have undertaken a journey from my childhood to the man I am today, writing about the key events in my life, and about the people who have given me new perspectives. About men and women I have never met, but wish I had.I write about love and jealousy, about courage and fear. And about what it is like to live with a potentially fatal illness.This book is also about why the cave painters 40,000 years ago chose the very darkest places for their fascinating pictures. And about the dreadful troll that we are trying to lock away inside the bedrock of a Swedish mountain for the next 100,000 years.It is a book about how humanity has lived and continues to live, and about how I have lived and continue to live my own life.And, not least, about the great zest for life, which came back when I managed to drag myself out of the Quicksand that threatened to suck me down into the abyss.

C’est l’automne en Scanie. Désabusé, Wallander aspire à une retraite paisible à la campagne. Il s’enthousiasme pour une ancienne ferme. Lors d’une déambulation dans le jardin à l’abandon, il trébuche

« En janvier 2014, j’ai appris que j’étais atteint d’un cancer grave. Cependant, ce n’est pas un livre crépusculaire, mais une réflexion sur ce que c’est que vivre. Je me suis promené dans ma propre

Fredrik Welin, médecin à la retraite, vit reclus sur son île de la Baltique. Une nuit, une lumière aveuglante le tire du sommeil. Au matin, la maison héritée de ses grands-parents n’est plus qu’une r

One night José Antonio Maria Vaz hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery. He races to the theatre''s uppermost gallery, and there beneath him on a spotlit stage lies the wounded body of Nelio, a street urchin renowned for living on his wits. Gasping, the wounded boy asks to be taken to the roof to breathe the beautiful air fresh off the Indian Ocean. On that theatre roof, his life ebbing away, Nelio begins his story. At the age of five, Nelio watched helplessly as his village was burned to the ground and his people were massacred by bandits. He escaped by chance; a man handed him a gun and ordered him to shoot another boy, but instead he turned the gun on the bandit and ran. He made his way to the coast, encountering en route bizarre characters who gave him guidance. Upon arrival in the city Nelio joined a rough street gang, and began a very different way of life. Henning Mankell''s "Chronicler of the Winds" is a dazzling new venture from the master of crime; a beautifully told fable of the African continent.

It is October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer charged with making depth soundings to find a navigable channel for the Swedish navy. As a child Tobiasson-Svartman was fascinated by measurement; nothing is as magical as exact knowledge. His instinct for his profession is reflected in the comfortable domesticity he enjoys with his wife - herself meticulous in every detail. Close to the waters where soundings are taken Tobiasson-Svartman alights on a barren skerry, presumed uninhabited, and is surprised to discover there a young woman, Sara Fredrika. Despite her almost feral appearance, something about her strikes him to the core. The mission is a success and the Svea returns to Gothenburg. Tobiasson-Svartman, however, remains haunted by this chance encounter; his equilibrium has been disturbed, and he is now compelled to find any pretence to return to the remote islet. In "Depths" Mankell confirms his status as a writer beyond the crime genre. By delving deep into the male psyche, he has produced a novel both as tense and compelling in every way as the "Wallander series", but also powerful, moving and ultimately tragic.

»Mankell ist ein im besten Sinne spannender Roman gelungen, eine Beschreibung Afrikas ohne jede Romantisierung und Idealisierung. Selten ist menschliches Scheitern beeindruckender beschrieben worden als von Henning Mankell.« Walter Wuttke im ›Rheinischen Merkur‹ »Der weiße Mann arbeitet schnell und hart, aber Eile und Ungeduld sind in den Augen der Schwarzen ein Zeichen fehlender Intelligenz.« - Eigentlich hatte der junge Mann nur eine kurze Reise nach Afrika machen wollen, aber dann war er neunzehn Jahre geblieben. In Lusaka übernimmt er die Hühnerfarm einer weißen Engländerin und verfolgt ehrgeizige Reformpläne: Er will neue Häuser für die Schwarzen bauen, ihnen höhere Löhne bezahlen und ihren Kindern eine Schule einrichten. Er sorgt für die Witwe eines schwarzen Handwerkers und ihre vier Töchter, deren jüngste für ihn wie eine eigene Tochter ist. Doch bald mehren sich die Zeichen, daß sich die Zustände nicht so rasch in seinem Sinne ändern lassen. Seine weißen Nachbarn werden massakriert. Und der Mann, den er für seinen einzigen Freund hält, rät ihm, für immer wegzugehen ...

The Pyramid is a collection of 5 short stories plus an additional prologue. It tells about the time between 1969-1989, from the time when Wallander was a police at Malmö to that he meets his father at a Egyptian police station in Cairo "The Pyramid", es una recopilación de cinco relatos cortos además de un prólogo adicional. Nos relata acerca del período entre 1969 y 1989, desde los tiempos en que Wallander era policía en Malmö al momento en que conoce a su padre en una comisaría de policía en El Cairo.

Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill the missionary dream of his recently deceased friend Janice. Africa is a complete shock to Olofson, yet he chooses to stay and make it his home, eventually taking control of a small farm. Here, he learns of the fragile truce between the white and black populations of Zambia, and rumors of an underground army of revolutionaries wearing leopard skins alert him that violence may erupt at any moment. As a wealthy white man, he grows increasingly fearful and returns in his mind to the traumatic events that drove him from Sweden, playing back the complicated events of his past, as his present races toward a thrilling climax.

«¿QUIEN HA VISTO UN GATO NEGRO CON UN POCO DE BLANCO EN LA PUNTA DE LA COLA? DESAPARECIDO DE LA CALLE RÖNNBÄR, 19 LLAMA AL 4911408Una mañana, cuando Lukas se despierte, descubrirá que Noche, su gato,

“Este libro trata de una persona invencible llamada Sofía. Tiene doce años y vive en uno de los países más pobres del mundo, Mozambique, que está situado en la costa este de África. Éste libro trata

Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm.

Vom geheimnisvollen Zauber eines groen Kontinents Felisberto, ein alter Afrikaner, sitzt am Feuer und erzahlt: von der uber dreihundert Jahre alten Stammesmutter Samima, die zwar tot ist, aber als lebender Geist bei ihren Nachfahren auerst gegenwartig. Oder von dem Weien Dom Estefano, dessen Diener er war, und von dem Klavier, das verlassen am Hafen stand und eines Nachts von ganz allein zu spielen begann. Henning Mankell erzahlt von der magischen Seite des schwarzen Kontinents und vom Ende des Kolonialismus - angesiedelt im Grenzbereich zwischen Traum und Realitat, Mythos und politischer Geschichte.

One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, looking for witnesses, they uncover a crime unprecedented in Swedish history. When Judge Birgitta Roslin reads about the massacre, she realises that she has a family connection to one of the couples involved and decides to investigate. A nineteenth-century diary and a red silk ribbon found in the forest nearby are the only clues. What Birgitta eventually uncovers leads her into an international web of corruption and a story of vengeance that stretches back over a hundred years, linking China and the USA of the 1860s with modern-day Beijing, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and coming to a shocking climax in London''s Chinatown. The Man from Beijing is both a gripping and perceptive political thriller and a compelling detective story. It shows Henning Mankell at the height of his powers, handling a broad historical canvas and pressing international issues with his exceptional gifts for insight and chilling suspense.

One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence beyond reason. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. When this is leaked to the press, it unleashes racial hatred.