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Chronicler of the winds / Henning Mankell

By:

Mankell, Henning, (1948-2015)

Contributor(s):

Nunnally, Tiina

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton , 2006Description: 233 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9781860469916

Subject(s):

Homeless boys -- --Fiction

DDC classification:

MYS MAN

LOC classification:

PQ2667.I696 D48 1998

Awards:

Shortlisted for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature and nominated for the Swedish Publishers Association's August Prize.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	MYS MAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		033807

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.

Translated from the Swedish to English.

Shortlisted for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature and nominated for the Swedish Publishers Association's August Prize.

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