000			01685nam a2200253 a 4500
001			062630
005			20231009193132.0
008			230427s20122012nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a9780307385932
050	0	0	_aPT9876.23.A49 _bO7613 2011
082			_aMYS MAN _2
100	1		_aMankell, Henning _d(1948-2015)
245	1	4	_aThe shadow girls _c/ Henning Mankell
260			_aNew York _b: Vintage Books _c, 2012
300			_a329 p. _c; 21 cm
520			_aJesper Humlin is a poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales, an exasperated girlfriend, a demanding mother, and a rapidly fading tan. His boy-wonder stockbroker has squandered Humlin's investments, and his editor, who says he must write a crime novel to survive, begins to pitch and promote the nonexistent book despite Humlin's emphatic refusals. Then, when he travels to Gothenburg to give a reading, he finds himself thrust into an entirely different world, where names shift, stories overlap, and histories are both deeply secret and in profound need of retelling. Leyla from Iran, Tanya from Russia, and Tea-Bag, who is from Africa but claims to be from Kurdistan (because Kurds might receive preferential treatment as refugees) these are the shadow girls who become Humlin's unlikely pupils in impromptu writing workshops. Though he had imagined their stories as fodder for his own book, soon their intertwining lives require him to play a much different role
546			_aTranlsated from the Swedish to English
650		4	_aPoets _v--Fiction
650		4	_aRefugees _v--Fiction
651		4	_aSweden-- _vFiction
655		4	_aSuspense fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c261572 _d261572