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008			140722s2013 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2013005864
020			_a9780307961228
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aPT9876.23.A49 _bM6613 2013
082	0	0	_aFIC MAN
100	1		_aMankell, Henning _d(1948-2015)
240	1	0	_aMinnet av en smutsig ängel _l. English
245	1	2	_aA treacherous paradise _c/ Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson.
250			_aFirst United States edition.
300			_a359 pages _c; 25 cm
500			_a"Originally published in Sweden as Minnet av en smutsig ängel by Leopard Förlag, Stockholm, in 2011."
520			_aMankell, who as author or the Kurt Wallander mysteries leads his contemporaries in the bountiful territory of Scandinavian noir, here leaps far into magical realism. Hanna begins life in icy poverty in turn-of-the-20th-century rural Sweden. When her mother insists that she head into the world, Hannah becomes a cook on a ship headed for Australia; she marries an officer, is widowed, jumps ship in Africa, becomes deadly ill at a "hotel," recovers, marries the "hotel's" owner, and is soon widowed again. This time, though, she is left immensely wealthy, and her greatest asset, the "hotel," is actually a flourishing brothel. Soon, Hanna becomes Ana and copes with identity quests (personal, geographic, racial) in a colonial Africa where racism is a given-except that Ana deviates, showing compassionate concern for the black prostitutes, a black woman who murders her white "husband," and an odd "best friend" named Carlos (read the book to find out). Though not initially a page-turner, the book soon becomes one, and vivid descriptions of both lush living and abject poverty abound. The ending? Magical.
651			_aAfrica _v--Fiction
942			_cMO
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