Chronicler of the Winds - Rilegato

Mankell, Henning

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ISBN 10: 1595580581 ISBN 13: 9781595580580

Casa editrice: New Pr, 2006

Riassunto

Slowly dying on a theater rooftop in an African port, ten-year-old Nelio, a street-kid leader and rumored healer and prophet remembers how he joined a legion of abandoned youths after his village was razed by bandits, and how he endeavored to prove to his companions that life is more than mere survival. By the award-winning author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries.

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Recensione:

Timely and well worth reading, this is highly recommended.” — Library Journal (starred review)

Evocative, quietly powerful . . . it’s impossible not to be moved.” — Publishers Weekly

A wonderful, lyrical fable.” — Vogue (UK)
Lyrical . . . elegant . . . it will certainly move readers.” — Literary Review

L'autore:

Henning Mankell is an internationally bestselling author who has received numerous awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association’s Macallan Gold Dagger and the German Tolerance Prize. His Kurt Wallander mysteries are global bestsellers and have been adapted into the PBS Masterpiece Mystery! series Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh. The New Press has published English translations of ten of his Wallander mysteries—Faceless Killers, The White Lioness, Sidetracked, The Fifth Woman, One Step Behind, Firewall, The Dogs of Riga, Before the Frost, The Man Who Smiled, and The Pyramid—the novels The Return of the Dancing Master, Chronicler of the Winds, Depths, Kennedy’s Brain, The Eye of the Leopard, Italian Shoes, Daniel, and The Shadow Girls; and the nonfiction I Die, But My Memory Lives On: The World AIDS Crisis and the Memory Book Project. Born in 1948, Mankell grew up in the Swedish village of Sveg. He now divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he works as a director at Teatro Avenida.

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• Editore: New Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1595580581
• ISBN 13: 9781595580580
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 233