by Henning Mankell · Harvill Secker · tapa dura · ISBN 9781860469909
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«Chronicler of the Winds» is the novel by Henning Mankell, published by Harvill Secker in hardback (240 pages, in English).
In an African city, the baker José Antonio María Vaz hears gunshots in an abandoned theatre and finds Nelio, a young wounded vagabond. Before dying, Nelio asks to be taken up to the rooftop to breathe the air of the Indian Ocean and tells him his story: the loss of his village, his flight and his survival on the streets.
The work was originally published in Swedish as «Comédia Infantil» in 1995, translated into English by Tiina Nunnally and received the Sveriges Radios Romanpris award in 1996.
Suitable for the general adult public, especially readers of literary fiction interested in stories set in Africa.
Henning Georg Mankell was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays for television.
