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A major event in publishing - Henning Mankell's departure from the crime genre will attract huge interest and this mesmerising fable will broaden his readershipOne night Jose Antonio Maria Vaz hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery.
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Earnest, contemporary, grave and bleak.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Henning Mankell
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Buchgemeinschaften, Imprint unknown, New Press
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- Portuguese, German, English, Swedish
- ISBN
- 9781595580580
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Henning Mankell was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of a judge. He grew up in the towns of Sveg and Borås. His grandfather, also called Henning Mankell (1868–1930), was a well-known composer. At the age of 20, Mankell was the assistant director at the Riks Theater in Stockholm, and he was also writing. In the 1970s he moved to Norway, where he lived with a woman who was a member of the Maoist Communist Labour Party, although he never officially joined the Party. He moved to Africa and lived in several African countries, and in 1985 he founded the Avenida Theater in Maputo, Mozambique, where he continues to spend about half of every year. In 1997 he began his most well-known series of nove
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