by Henning Mankell · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782021030198
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«Daisy Sisters» is the novel by Henning Mankell published by Seuil in paperback (512 pages, in French).
Summer 1941. Two seventeen-year-old friends, Elna and Vivi, cycle through Sweden along the border with Nazi-occupied Norway. Elna is raped and returns pregnant with Eivor. In 1960, Eivor runs away with a young delinquent. Mother and daughter between 1941 and 1981: the struggle for female freedom in twentieth-century Sweden.
It is Henning Mankell's first novel, originally published in 1982. This French edition, translated by Agneta Ségol and Marianne Ségol-Samoy, came out in 2015 in the Cadre vert collection.
For readers of literary fiction and for those interested in Henning Mankell's early work, with its social and political concerns.
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.
