Chronicler of the Winds - Softcover

Mankell, Henning

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307280446 ISBN 13: 9780307280442

Verlag: Vintage, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Henning Mankell

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Críticas:

"Mankell [is] a master storyteller."
--The San Francisco Chronicle

"Admirable. . . . [Mankell is] a writer in search of metaphor and meaning. . . . [Which] makes for an elusively compelling narrative voice."
--The Boston Globe

"Uplifting. . . . Chronicler of the Winds seems to widen his repertory, switching between the nightmarish, the dream-like and the grittily realistic. . . . Mankell evokes a saintliness among those whose brief lives have been tempered by genocide, exploitation and hardship."
--The New York Times

"Cinematic and theatrical . . . structured by gorgeous moments of text that transcend the page and become vivid images seared onto the imagination."
--Yale Daily News

Reseña del editor:

A haunting and powerful story about war-torn Africa, a mystical orphan boy, and the power of narrative to give a chaotic world order.

In the hot African night a single gunshot cracks the silence. José Antonio traces the sound to the stage of the local theatre company, where he finds Nelio, the young prophetical leader of the city’s street kids, crumpled in blood. Nelio refuses to be taken to the hospital but instead tells Jose his life’s story: how bandits raided his village, his daring escape, and his struggle to survive on the streets. José is irrevocably changed. He becomes the Chronicler of the Winds, revealing Nelios’s magical tale to all who will listen.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0307280446
• ISBN 13: 9780307280442
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256