Daniel
by Henning Mankell
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"Hans Bengler, a young entomologist, leaves Sweden for the Kalahari Desert, determined to find a previously undiscovered insect to name after himself and advance his career. Instead, he finds a young boy, whose tribe has been decimated by European raiders. Accustomed to collecting specimens, Bengler re-names the traumatised child Daniel and brings him home to Sweden, intending to 'civilise' him. But Daniel yearns desperately for the desert and his real family. His only consolation is his friendship with a vulnerable young girl who is also an outsider in the community, but even this bond is destined to be violently broken, as Daniel's isolation and increasing desperation lead to a chilling tragedy." --
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Junge, Boys, Africans, San (African people), Fiction, Race relations, Relaciones raciales, Novela histo rica, Adoption, Novela, Adopcio n, Suecos, Muchachos, Swedes, Fiction, historical, South africa, fiction, Sweden, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Entomologists, Psychology, Tribes, Aliens, Social Marginality, Interracial adoption, French fiction, Translations from Swedish, Detective and mystery stories, Orphelins, Romans, nouvelles, Enfants adoptés, Roman suédois, Littérature suédoise, Fiction, historical, generalPlaces
Sweden, Kalahari Desert, Suecia, A frica, Africa, Desierto de Kalahari, AfriqueTimes
19th century, Siglo XIXShowing 8 featured editions. View all 13 editions?
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This translation originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2010.
Translated from the Swedish.
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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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