โ Scribed by Henning Mankell
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Mankell's evocative, quietly powerful novel, first published in 1995, tells the unbearably sad story of 10-year-old Nelio, a mortally wounded street kid in an unnamed African port city. After revolutionary soldiers kill his family and most of the people in his village ("to show us they were serious in their struggle to liberate us and help us have a better life"), Nelio makes his way to the city where he joins a gang of homeless orphans, eventuallyโand reluctantlyโbecoming their leader. They have "only one mission in life: to survive," but that's essentially all they can hope for. Mankell, best known for his Kurt Wallander mystery series (The Dogs of Riga, etc.), vividly depicts in this heartbreaking fable the ongoing tragedy of Africa's disenfranchised. At times the narrative strays too far from Nelio's story and the tone slips into a kind of magical realism, but it's impossible not to be moved by the tale of Nelio's short and painful life. (June)
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โMankell writes eloquently of the realities of poverty and violence without becoming sugary or didactic โฆ an expert craftsman.โ
โThe Observer
โThis is a deeply affecting read, one of those rare novels whose taste lingers for days afterwards.โ
โThe Sunday Herald (UK)
โAn elegant story about storytelling.โ
โLiterary Review
โEvocative, quietly powerful.โฆ Itโs impossible not to be moved by the tale of Nelio and his short and painful life.โ
โPublishers Weekly
โChronicler of the Winds widens [Mankellโs] repertoire, switching between the nightmarish, the dream-like and the gritty realistic.โ
โThe New York Times
โMankellโs novel is about the broken legacy of colonialism and the greed and violence that follow in its wake. The heroes (and victims) of this chaos are boys like Nelio and Josรฉ who refuse to succumb to the brutality that surrounds themโฆ. Timely and well worth reading.โ
โLibrary Journal (starred review)
โThis is a wonderful book about the importance of stories, its own sheer quality providing its best argument.โ
โDaily Mail (UK)
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