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Italian Shoes

By Henning Mankell

By Henning Mankell

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Paperback $15.95

Oct 19, 2010 | 256 Pages

Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell
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Oct 19, 2010 | 256 Pages

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About Italian Shoes

From the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander series comes a touching and intimate story about an embattled man’s unexpected chance at redemption.  
 
Many years ago a devastating mistake drove Fredrik Welin into a life as far as possible from his former position as a surgeon, where he mistakenly amputated the wrong arm of one of his patients. Now he lives in a frozen landscape. Each morning he dips his body into the freezing lake surrounding his home to remind himself he’s alive. However, Welins’s icy existence begins to thaw when he receives a visit from a guest who helps him embark on a journey to acceptance and understanding. Full of the graceful prose and deft characterization that have been the hallmarks of Mankell’s prose, Italian Shoes shows a modern master at the height of his powers, effortlessly delivering a remarkable novel about the most rewarding theme of all: hope.

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About Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell’s novels have been translated into forty-five languages and have sold more than forty million copies worldwide. He was the first winner of the Ripper Award and also received the Glass Key and the Crime Writers’ Association Golden Dagger,… More about Henning Mankell

Product Details

Category: Literary Fiction

Paperback | $15.95
Published by Vintage
Oct 19, 2010 | 256 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307472243

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Praise

“Beautiful.”—The Boston Globe  

“A voyage into the soul of a man.”–The Guardian, London
 
“A fine meditation on love and loss.”–Sunday Telegraph, London

“Intense and precisely detailed. . . . A hopeful account of a man released from self-imposed withdrawal.”—The Independent, London

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