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Sean Barrett
Henning Mankell's last novel about an aging man whose quiet, solitary life on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden is turned upside down when his house catches fire.
Fredrik Welin is a former surgeon who retired in disgrace decades earlier to a tiny island on which he is the only resident. He has a daughter he rarely sees, and his mailman, Jansson, is the closest thing he has to a friend and to an adversary. He is perfectly content to live out his days in quiet solitude.
One autumn evening, he is startled awake by a blinding light - only to discover that his house is on fire. With the help of Jansson, he escapes the flames just in time wearing two left boots. Dawn reveals that everything he owns is now a smoldering pile of ash, and his house is destroyed - forcing him to move into an abandoned trailer on his island. A local journalist, Lisa Modin, who wants to write a story about the fire, comes into his life. In doing so, she awakens in him something that he thought was long dead. Soon after, his daughter comes to the island with surprising news of her own. Meanwhile, the police suspect Fredrik of arson because he had a sizable insurance claim on his house. When Fredrik is away from the archipelago, another house goes up in flames, and the community realizes they have an arsonist in their midst.
After the Fire is an intimate portrait of an elderly recluse who is forced to open himself up to a world he'd left behind.
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It was an uplifting read in the end but mournful at times . Just a warning ,
A must read if your a fan .
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Mildly interesting but not my favorite
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Loved it!
An interesting view of life, aging and death
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The reader starts, as with most novels, feeling sympathetic toward him. But gradually he becomes less and less likable and increasingly mysterious.
It’s a good read. Worth it. Well written. Compelling.
Interesting but unsympathetic protagonist
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Loved this “memoir” mystery
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Poignancy
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True life, Not a fairy tale or an alluring myster
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no it's the narrator who rescues this piece from the trash bin. Barrett has tremendous gravity and a skilled actors sense of economy and trust. unlike the awful assortment of lisping hacks that publishing houses seem to contract these days. Scott Brick would have made the common amateur's mistake of manufacturing emotion while reading,over enunciating like a 5th grade spelling teacher and indicating the text broadly as if performing a call back audition for Our Town. Why on earth does Audible ruin so many books by casting or tolerating these prancing little nothing's?
anyway this book works all thanks to Barrett and his strong sense of restraint and truth
Sean Barrett is magnificent
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Eh
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Such a smooth comforting story
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