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Italian Shoes Hardback - 2009

by Henning Mankell; Laurie Thompson (Translator)

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The bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander series delivers a "short, beautiful, and ultimately life-affirming novel" about the path to self-acceptance (Booklist).

From the prize-winning "master of atmosphere" comes the surprising and affecting story of a man well past middle age who suddenly finds himself on the threshold of renewal (The Boston Globe).

Living on a tiny island that is surrounded by ice during the long winter months, Fredrik Welin is so lost to the world that he cuts a hole in the ice every morning and lowers himself into the freezing water to remind himself that he is alive. Haunted by memories of the terrible mistake that drove him to this island and away from a successful career as a surgeon, he lives in a stasis so complete that an anthill grows undisturbed in his living room.

When an unexpected visitor disrupts this frigid existence, Frederik begins an eccentric, elegiac journey--one that displays the full height of Henning Mankell's storytelling powers. A deeply human tale of loss and redemption, Italian Shoes is "a voyage into the soul of a man" expertly crafted with "snares that Mankell has hidden with a hunter's skill inside this spectral landscape" (The Guardian).

"Beautiful." --The Boston Globe

"A fine meditation on love and loss." --The Sunday Telegraph

"Intense and precisely detailed. . . . A hopeful account of a man released from self-imposed withdrawal." --The Independent

"The creator of police detective Kurt Wallander presents a tale of mortal reckoning in which all the deaths are natural but none the less powerful." --Kirkus Reviews

First line

I always feel more lonely when it's cold.

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  • Title Italian Shoes
  • Author Henning Mankell; Laurie Thompson (Translator)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 247
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Press, New York
  • Publication date 2009
  • ISBN 9781595584366 / 1595584366
  • Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.9 in (21.59 x 14.73 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Islands, Recluses
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008054518
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Henning Mankell is an internationally bestselling author who has received numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association's Macallan Gold Dagger and the German Tolerance Prize. His Kurt Wallander mysteries are global bestsellers and have been adapted into the PBS Masterpiece Mystery! series Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh. The New Press has published English translations of ten of his Wallander mysteries--Faceless Killers, The White Lioness, Sidetracked, The Fifth Woman, One Step Behind, Firewall, The Dogs of Riga, Before the Frost, The Man Who Smiled, and The Pyramid--the novels The Return of the Dancing Master, Chronicler of the Winds, Depths, Kennedy's Brain, The Eye of the Leopard, Italian Shoes, Daniel, and The Shadow Girls; and the nonfiction I Die, But My Memory Lives On: The World AIDS Crisis and the Memory Book Project. Born in 1948, Mankell grew up in the Swedish village of Sveg. He now divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he works as a director at Teatro Avenida.

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