Bibliograph

Daniel, Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray

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Label

Daniel, Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray

Language

eng

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Literary Form

novels

Main title

Daniel

Oclc number

505420499

Responsibility statement

Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray

Summary

In the 1870s, Hans Bengler arrives in Cape Town from Sweden, driven by a singular desire: to discover an insect no one has seen before and name it after himself. But then he impulsively adopts a young San orphan, a boy he christens Daniel and brings with him back to Sweden--a quite different specimen than he first contemplated. Daniel is told to call Bengler "Father," taught to knock on doors and bow, and continually struggles to understand this strange new land of mud and snow that surrounds and seemingly entraps him. At the same time, he is haunted by visions of his murdered parents calling him home to Africa. Knowing that the only way home is by sea, he decides he must learn to walk on water if he is ever to reclaim his true place in the world

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