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Summary: In January 2014 Hening Mankell was informed that he had cancer.However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction, but about what it means to be human. He writes about love and jealousy, about courage and fear. And about what it is like to live with a potentially fatal illness. This book is also about why the cave painters 40,000 years ago chose the very darkest places for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANKELL, HENNING MANKallifatides, Theodor
Summary: "A rewarding philosophical essay on memory, language, love, and the passage of time. In this slim memoir, Kallifatides struggles to come to terms with the weight of writer's block and understand the interplay of meaningful living and meaningful work. But he also comments on the worrying trends in contemporary Europe and his sadness at the battered state of his beloved Greece. Finally, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KALLIFATIDES, THEODOR KALPettersson, Jan-Erik.
Summary: "Stieg Larsson's former publisher reveals the real man behind the mega-bestselling Millennium Trilogy--a man who fought heroically for human rights, and who brought that same political and moral passion to his writing. Until the trilogy's posthumous publication, Larsson was best known for his devotion to left-wing causes and as a tireless anti-fascist activist. Horrified by the rise of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LARSSON, STIEG PETMunthe, Axel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2002