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Chronicler of the Winds

✍ Scribed by Henning Mankell

Book ID: 113265313
Publisher: The New Press
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 162 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781595585592

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✦ Synopsis

From the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander Mysteries: An "uplifting . . . grittily realistic" fable about war-torn Africa and a mystical orphan boy (The New York Times).

A single gunshot cracks the silence of a hot African night. On the rooftop of a local theater company, a ten-year-old boy slowly dies 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 refuses to be taken to the hospital. Instead, he tells the unforgettable story of his life to a sole witness. Over the course of nine nights, a baker named Jose Antonio Maria Vaz listens as bandits cruelly raze Nelio's village, propelling him to join the legions of abandoned children living in the streets. A grand act of imagination intended to prove to his comrades that existence must be more than mere survival, cuts Nelio's...

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