Title: Quicksand - Fragments of My Life - Henning Mankell - book
Summary :
“In January 2014, I learned that I had a serious cancer. However, this is not a twilight book, but a reflection on what it is to live. I have wandered through my own history, from the child I was to the man I am today. I speak of events that have marked me forever and of men and women who have opened up unsuspected perspectives for me. I speak of love and jealousy, of courage and fear, of cohabitation with a potentially fatal illness. I speak of the artists who lived 40,000 years ago, of the fascinating images they left us in the deep, dark recesses of the caves. I speak of the evil troll we engendered and which we are now trying to lock away in the mountain so that it does not escape for the next hundred thousand years.” I speak of the way humanity has lived and lives, and of the way I myself have lived. I speak of the joy of living. It returned to me after I escaped the quicksand, which threatened to drag me into the abyss. HM
Mankell invites us to share the astonishing journey of his life, from the solitude of the immense forests of northern Sweden to a cosmopolitan life on several continents, but also and above all the invisible, inner journey that has occupied him since childhood. A story brimming with vital energy.
Henning Mankell , born in 1948, winner of numerous literary prizes, divides his time between Sweden, Mozambique and France. In addition to the famous detective series "Wallander", he is the author of novels on Africa and social issues, plays and works for young people.
Translated from Swedish by Anna Gibson
Of Swedish origin, born in Lisbon, raised in Portugal then in Belgium, Anna Gibson arrived in France in 1981 at the age of eighteen. She has been a full-time literary translator since 1989 (Henning Mankell, Colm Tóibín, Monika Fagerholm, Klas Östergren among others). She is also the author of a novel, This summer , published by Balland in 1997.
