The shadow girls / Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg.
Record details
- ISBN: 1595581928 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781595581921 (hc. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1595581928 (hc. : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: p. ; cm.
- Publisher: New York : New Press, 2012.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | Jesper Humlin is a poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales, an exasperated girlfriend, a demanding mother, and a rapidly fading tan. His boy-wonder stockbroker has squandered Humlin's investments, and his editor, who says he must write a crime novel to survive, begins to pitch and promote the nonexistent book despite Humlin's emphatic refusals. Then, when he travels to Gothenburg to give a reading, he finds himself thrust into an entirely different world, where names shift, stories overlap, and histories are both deeply secret and in profound need of retelling. Leyla from Iran, Tanya from Russia, and Tea-Bag, who is from Africa but claims to be from Kurdistan (because Kurds might receive preferential treatment as refugees) these are the shadow girls who become Humlin's unlikely pupils in impromptu writing workshops. Though he had imagined their stories as fodder for his own book, soon their intertwining lives require him to play a much different role. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Ansonia Public Library | MYS MANKELL, HENNING (Text) | 34045123625480 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
Burnham Library - Bridgewater | FIC MANKELL (Text) | 36937002125905 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | FIC MANKELL (Text) | 34000080624455 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Douglas Library of Hebron | FIC MAN (Text) | 33400000693161 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | FIC MANKELL,H (Text) | 34026125160031 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | FIC MAN (Text) | 34055126976210 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Jonathan Trumbull Library - Lebanon | FIC MAN (Text) | 33430125786244 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | FICTION MANKELL (Text) | 32518126846784 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | FIC MANKELL, H (Text) | 36123001435211 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Rowayton Library | F MAN (Text) | 33625126671028 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |