Italian shoes / Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Publication details: London : Vintage, 2010, c2009Description: 247 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781846550997 (hbk.); 1846550998 (hbk.); 9781846551000 (pbk); 9780099512981Subject(s): Physicians -- Sweden -- Fiction | Physicians -- Malpractice -- Fiction | Terminally ill -- Fiction | Sweden -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. DDC classification: 839.7374 Summary: Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced. One morning in the depths of winter, he sees a hunched figure struggling towards him across the ice. His past is about to catch up with him. The figure approaching is Harriet, the only woman he has ever loved, the woman he abandoned forty years earlier.Now in the late stages of a terminal illness, she wants to visit a small lake in northern Sweden, a place Welin's father took him once as a boy. Once there Welin discovers that Harriet has left the biggest surprise until last. "Italian Shoes" is as compelling as it is disturbing. Through his anti-hero Welin, Mankell tackles ageing and death with sensitivity and acuity, and as with the critically acclaimed Depths, delivers a moving tour-de-force on the frailty of mankind.
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Translated from the Swedish.
"First published with the title Italienska skor in 2006 by Leopard Forlag, Stockholm"--T.p. verso.
Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced. One morning in the depths of winter, he sees a hunched figure struggling towards him across the ice. His past is about to catch up with him. The figure approaching is Harriet, the only woman he has ever loved, the woman he abandoned forty years earlier.Now in the late stages of a terminal illness, she wants to visit a small lake in northern Sweden, a place Welin's father took him once as a boy. Once there Welin discovers that Harriet has left the biggest surprise until last. "Italian Shoes" is as compelling as it is disturbing. Through his anti-hero Welin, Mankell tackles ageing and death with sensitivity and acuity, and as with the critically acclaimed Depths, delivers a moving tour-de-force on the frailty of mankind.
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