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Title Statement | The shadow girls / Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg. |
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Author | Mankell, Henning, 1948- |
Additional Contributors | Segerberg, Ebba |
Publication | New York: New Press, 2012. |
Extent of Item | 329 p. |
ISBN | 1595581928 9781595581921 |
Other Number | 2361121 |
General Notes | Translation of: Tea-bag. |
Summary | Jesper Humlin is a poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales. His editor says he must write a crime novel to survive. He travels to Gothenburg to give a reading and 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. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Poets--Fiction |
Young women--Fiction | |
Women immigrants--Fiction | |
Interpersonal relations--Fiction | |
By Location | Sweden--Fiction |