The shadow girls / Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mankell, Henning, 1948-

Contributor:

Segerberg, Ebba.

Standardized Title:

Tea-bag. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets--Fiction.

Poets.

Refugees--Sweden--Goteborg--Fiction.

Refugees.

Writers' workshops--Sweden--Goteborg--Fiction.

Writers' workshops.

Göteborg (Sweden)--Fiction.

Göteborg (Sweden).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 retell

Contents:

Front Page; Also by Henning Mankell; Title Page; Copyright Page; Cover Page; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Afterword

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781595588449

1595588442

OCLC:

812911801