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Chronicler of the Winds (Original title: Comédia infantil) is a novel written by Henning Mankell in Swedish in 1995. The story is set in an unnamed port city in Africa which resembles Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, where the author often lived and worked.
Jan 1, 2001 · Chronicler of the Winds is a novel of true literary merit. Henning Mankell, the author of the very popular Kurt Wallender police detective series set in Sweden, shows his breadth of capabilities in Chronicler.
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Apr 25, 2006 · Over the course of nine nights, a baker named José 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 life short.
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Chronicler of the Winds. Henning Mankell. Random House, Sep 4, 2008 - Fiction - 240 pages. A moving, deeply affecting story about street children in Africa, from the...
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Apr 25, 2006 · 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.
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Shortlisted for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature and nominated for the Swedish Publishers Association’s August Prize, Chronicler of the Winds is a beautifully crafted novel that is a...
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A haunting and powerful story about war-torn Africa, a mystical orphan boy, and the power of narrative to give a chaotic world order. In the hot African night a single gunshot cracks the silence.
