Mankell, Henning: EYE OF THE LEOPARD, THE.

Author: Mankell, Henning
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 2008
No. of pages: 315
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Binding: Hardbound with jacket
Size: 9 1/2”x 6 1/2”
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ISBN: 9781595580771
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6432

Price: $12.50

This haunting novel from the author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries juxtaposes a man's youth in Sweden with his life in Zambia, drawing on Henning Mankell's own deep understanding of the two worlds he has inhabited. Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill the missionary dream of his late friend Janice and also fleeing the traumas of his motherless childhood, his father's alcoholism, and his best friend's terrible accident. Though Africa is a terrible shock, he stays and makes it his home for 18 years—yet he never fully comes to understand his place as a wealthy white man among native blacks, and the fragile truce between them. Rumors of an underground army of revolutionaries wearing leopard skins warn him that the truce is in danger of rupturing.