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An award-winning new novel by the internationally acclaimed mystery writer.
New Press
April 2006
272 pages
ISBN: 1595580581
Hardcover
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Literature and Fiction | Mystery | Fiction
"Nelio is dead. And however unlikely it may sound, it
seemed to me that he died without once being afraid. How can
that be possible?"—from Chronicler of the
Winds
World famous for his Kurt Wallander
mysteries, Henning Mankell has been published in thirty-five
countries, with more than 25 million copies of his books in
print. In Chronicler of the Winds, he gives us
something different: a beautifully crafted novel that is a
testament to the power of storytelling itself. On the
rooftop of a theater in an African port, a ten-year-old boy
lies slowly dying of bullet wounds. He is Nelio, a leader of
street kids, rumored to be a healer and a prophet, and
possessed of a strangely ancient wisdom.
One of the
millions of poor people "forced to eat life raw," Nelio
tells his unforgettable story over the course of nine
nights. After bandits cruelly raze his village, he joins the
legions of abandoned children living in the city's streets.
An act of the imagination, an effort to prove to his
comrades that life must be more than mere survival, cuts
short Nelio's life.
Already published in thirteen
countries, Chronicler of the Winds was short-listed
for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature and was
nominated for the Swedish Publishers Association's August Prize.
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