Name: Chronicler of the Winds

Author: Henning Mankell
Year: 1995
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Mystery
Culture: Africa

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9781595580580
1595580581
World famous for his Kurt Wallander mysteries, Henning Mankell has been published in thirty-five countries, with more than 25 million copies of his books in print. In Chronicler of the Winds, he gives us something different: a beautifully crafted novel that is a testament to the power of storytelling itself. On the rooftop of a theater in an African port, a ten-year-old boy lies slowly dying of bullet wounds. He is Nelio, a leader of street kids, rumored to be a healer and a prophet, and possessed of a strangely ancient wisdom. One of the millions of poor people '€œforced to eat life raw,'€ Nelio tells his unforgettable story over the course of nine nights. After bandits cruelly raze his village, he joins the legions of abandoned children living in the city'€™s streets. An act of the imagination, an effort to prove to his comrades that life must be more than mere survival, cuts short Nelio'€™s life. Already published in thirteen countries, Chronicler of the Winds was short-listed for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature and was nominated for the Swedish Publishers Association'€™s August Prize.
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