![]() He was the first winner of the Ripper Award and also received the Glass Key and the Crime Writers Association Golden Dagger, among other awards. Henning Mankells novels have been translated into forty-five languages and have sold more than forty million copies worldwide. "Elegant, unflinching." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) About the Author "Uplifting and, as a memoir, as unusual a creation as Nordic detective, Kurt Wallander." -GQ (London) Rarely has a writer contemplated the mystery of the end of life with such a wide-ranging curiosity." -London Evening Standard Quicksand, a hybrid of essay and memoir, reflects knowledgeably on art, religion, childhood, and the 'final insensibility that is our dying. " absorbing addition to the work of Swedens most internationally famous writer since August Strindberg. The reader realizes that Mankell has never really been driven by anger but by the tiny, fragile hope that his words and deeds will help in the fight for a fairer world." -The Independent (London) The essays sharpen with resounding poignancy." -Financial Times "Quicksand defines life not by its ending but by the creative and humanitarian content that filled-and fulfilled-Mankells life. Intensely beautiful in its spirit." -Alexander McCall Smith, New Statesman "Surely one of the most moving and intriguing farewell notes ever written. Vivid, clear-eyed, and bre athtakingly beautiful, Quicksand is an invaluable parting gift from a great man. ![]() Along the way, Mankell ponders the meaning of a good life, and the critically important ways we can shape the future of humanity if we are fortunate enough to have the choice. In a series of intimate vignettes, Mankell ranges over rich and varied reflections: of growing up in a small Swedish town, where he experiences a startling revelation on a winter morning as a young boy of living hand-to-mouth during a summer in Paris as an ambitious young writer of his work at a theater in Mozambique, where Lysistrata is staged in the midst of civil war of chance encounters with men and women who changed his understanding of the world. ![]() Instead, it is a testament to a life fully lived, a tribute to the extraordinary but fleeting human journey that delivers both boundless opportunity and crucial responsibility. ![]() Quicksand is a response to this shattering news-but it is not a memoir of destruction. In January 2014, Henning Mankell received a diagnosis of lung cancer. DOWNLOAD QUICKSAND APEK DOWNLOAD QUICKSAND APEK A stunning and poignant autobiographical look at the myriad experiences that shape a meaningful life, by the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries. ![]()
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