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Daniel

✍ Scribed by Henning Mankell

Publisher
The New Press
Year
2018;2011
Tongue
en-US
Weight
150 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1595581936

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✦ Synopsis

From the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander novels: The "haunting and fascinating" tale of a young boy's harrowing odyssey from Africa to Sweden (Booklist).

In the 1870s, Hans Bengler arrives in Cape Town from SmΓ₯land, Sweden, driven by a singular desire: to discover an insect no one has seen before and name it after himself. But then he impulsively adopts a young San orphan boy whose parents have been killed by European colonists. Christening the boy Daniel, Hans brings him back to Swedenβ€”a quite different specimen than he first contemplated.

Daniel is told to call Bengler "Father," and to knock on doors and bow. He continually struggles to understand this strange new land of mud and snow that surrounds and seemingly entraps him. At the same time, he is haunted by visions of his murdered parents calling him home to Africa. Knowing that the only way home is by sea, he decides he must learn to walk on water if he is ever...

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