![]() ![]() ![]() He has won numerous literary awards for his notable mystery series featuring the iconic Inspector Kurt Wallander, as well as for his children’s novel, A Bridge to the Stars, the first book in his Joel Gustafson series. Swedish crime writer, dramatist, and children’s author Henning Mankell divides his time between Sweden and Mozambique, where he is also involved in several relief organizations. ![]() Constrained by poverty, she must decide whether to follow her mother’s advice and hold on to her children’s father, his meager income, and their place in the village, or trust her heart. These happy times are short-lived, however, as Sophia catches Armando with another woman in the city. ![]() The struggles of nineteen-year-old Sophia Alface, a real-life landmine victim from Mozambique and depicted in Mankell’s previous novels Secrets in the Fire and Playing with Fire, continue in this equally eye-opening mix of “truth and invention.” Ten years since losing both of her legs, Sophia is raising two young children and expecting a third, yet constantly trying to understand life and figure out what it means to be an adult.Īlthough she still grieves the loss of her sisters to a landmine and AIDS lives without electricity and other modern conveniences in her village home and faces the constant threat of crocodiles, hippos, and leopards in the wild, she considers herself lucky to have healthy children and Armando, a caring lover. ![]()
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