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Publisher's summary
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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- Barbara Dumas
- 12-01-17
An interesting view of life, aging and death
Those looking for a standard Mankell police procedural may be disappointed with this book, may even find it boring, but it is anything but. I replayed so many sections, that I finally bought the book so that I could read as I listened and then reread. I shall not soon forget Fredrik's transition to 'The place where memory is swallowed up by forgetfulness'.
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- David
- 11-16-17
Most boring book this year
The description of the book is far more interesting than the book itself. It is hard to believe that the story of the after math of an old man having his house burn down could possibly be such slow going. This man has three relationships: one with his daughter, one with a neighbor, and one with a new female acquaintance. He manages to have a non-relationship with all of them. The narrator is a liar and a snoop, and a thoroughly unlikable reprobate.
This book has only one saving grace. If you suffer from insomnia an use listening to books as a way to relax at bedtime, this book is guaranteed to bore you to sleep.
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- Bella Bones
- 04-17-18
Such a smooth comforting story
I wanted this to continue.Sorry to have it end. The characters are wonderful, the writing so spare yet detailed. It was like putting on a comfortable sweater. Definitely not fast paced but it didn’t need to be.
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- Frances
- 07-02-18
Loved this “memoir” mystery
The book is an interior monologue of a full human being as a mystery unfolds and aging and understanding the past in the present reveal. I wept and said “do not end yet.” I am a 70 plus woman and I looked at my own past with our narrator with a more gentle view.
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- jpatrick
- 01-16-21
Dreary and soul deadening.
As an 81 year old man I was appealed by the author's description of aging.. The main character is a thoroughly repellant human being. Manipulative and needy . If like myself you are tempted to buy it because of Mankell`s name don't bother. I stuck with to the end out of sheer curiosity thinking it couldn`t get any duller but alas it does. Save yourself a d pass on dear reader.
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- Valerie O
- 12-01-17
A must read if your a fan .
Made so much more poignant by his passing .
It was an uplifting read in the end but mournful at times . Just a warning ,
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- Retired Ph.D. Sociology Professor
- 01-08-20
Wonderful writing
Not really much of a story but the writing was wonderful. Characters were developed and the story had an interesting ending.
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- Marily
- 12-28-19
True life, Not a fairy tale or an alluring myster
This is not an "entertaining" story. It is not fun and laughter. Life in this area of the world is cold, wet, and lonely. You must be a Person who is almost a recluse to survive. As we are introduced to the island strange fires start and deaths occur. This is not a fast moving book but I was never bored The writer carrys us along never stopping. The words flow. The reader is superb.
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- Jane
- 10-26-19
Disappointing
I have always loved this author's work, but my distaste for the two main characters slowly grew to a point that I could hardly finish the book. I guess the author is attempting to show us that we are all flawed in ways that we, ourselves, sometimes don't understand. I, however, came away disliking both main characters so intensely that I no longer wanted to read about them.
It felt as though the author had a great idea but lost interest halfway through. There is almost no background on the daughter to help the reader understand her behavior. The situations used toward the latter half of the book to create a picture of the daughter are what I would expect from a cheap romance novel.
I won't be suggesting this book to anyone.
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- robert
- 04-04-18
Sean Barrett is magnificent
was difficult at first,dirge like and very gloomy.the book addresses the reality of aging and loneliness.there is no sugar coating. there is little humor or charm in the novel and it is relentless.the writer deliberately avoids penning any remotely likeable characters. the poetic or metaphor employed thru out is simple but enough to please the critics who are forever rummaging around for that sort of thing believing it to signify art and depth.
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
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Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill the missionary dream of his friend Janice. He is also fleeing the traumas of his motherless childhood: his father's alcoholism, his best friend's terrible accident, Janice's death, his fear of an ordinary and stifled fate. Africa is a terrible shock, yet he stays and makes it his home. But he never fully comes to understand his place as a mzungu, a wealthy white man among native blacks, and the fragile truce between them.
By: Henning Mankell
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Italian Shoes
- By: Henning Mankell
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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With more than 30 million copies of his works published, in 37 languages, award-winning author Henning Mankell may be Sweden's most accomplished novelist. Here he crafts the icy, atmospheric tale of Fredrik Welin, a disgraced surgeon living in exile on a small island. When Fredrik receives a surprise visit from a lover he abandoned decades earlier, he begins the difficult road to redemption.
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Nothing like Kurt Wallander
- By Pamela on 10-18-12
By: Henning Mankell
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The Return of the Dancing Master
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- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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Stefan Lindman, a young police officer recently diagnosed with mouth cancer, decides to investigate the murder of his former colleague, but is soon enmeshed in a mystifying case with no witnesses and no apparent motives. Terrified of the disease that could take his life, Lindman becomes more and more reckless as he unearths the chilling links between Molin's death and an underground neo-Nazi network that runs further and deeper than he could ever have imagined.
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Good history, great writing
- By Ann L Omae on 03-12-09
By: Henning Mankell
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The Shadow Girls
- By: Henning Mankell, Ebba Segerberg - translator
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier, Mozhan Marno, Annie Henk, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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International best-selling author Henning Mankell' s books have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. In The Shadow Girls, author/poet Jesper Humlin struggles under the pall of a frustrating life. Everything from his personal relationships to his professional pursuits to his finances seems to be failing miserably. Then Jesper happens across a group of young immigrant girls and their stories of hardship and perseverance transform his outlook on life.
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Not his best
- By Eileen on 05-24-13
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Depths
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- By: Henning Mankell
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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October, 1914. Swedish naval officer Lars Tobiasson-Svartman is charged with a secret mission to take depth readings around the Stockholm archipelago. In the course of his work, he lands on the rocky isle of Halsskär. It seems utterly inhabitable, yet Halsskär is home to the young widow Sara Fredrika. Lars soon learns that Sara, living in near-total isolation, is unaware that the world is at war.
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meh
- By SB on 06-17-23
By: Henning Mankell
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Kennedy’s Brain
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- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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Archaeologist Louise Cantor returns home to Sweden, and makes a devastating discovery: her only child, twenty-eight-year-old Henrik, dead in his bed. The police rule his death a suicide, but she knows he was murdered; her quest to find out what really happened to Henrik takes her across the globe to Barcelona, where her son kept a secret apartment; Sydney, Australia, to find Aron, her estranged ex-husband and Henrik's father; and to Maputo, Mozambique, where she learns the awful truth behind an AIDS hospice.
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Doesn’t hold together
- By Don Beck on 07-04-23
By: Henning Mankell
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The Eye of the Leopard
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- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill the missionary dream of his friend Janice. He is also fleeing the traumas of his motherless childhood: his father's alcoholism, his best friend's terrible accident, Janice's death, his fear of an ordinary and stifled fate. Africa is a terrible shock, yet he stays and makes it his home. But he never fully comes to understand his place as a mzungu, a wealthy white man among native blacks, and the fragile truce between them.
By: Henning Mankell
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