QUICKSAND BY HENNING MANKELL

In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer.

However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction, but about what it means to be human.

I have undertaken a journey from my childhood to the man I am today, writing about the key events in my life, and about the people who have given me new perspectives. About men and women I have never met, but wish I had.

I write about love and jealousy, about courage and fear. And about what it is like to live with a potentially fatal illness.

This book is also about why the cave painters 40,000 years ago chose the very darkest places for their fascinating pictures. And about the dreadful troll that we are trying to lock away inside the bedrock of a Swedish mountain for the next 100,000 years.

It is a book about how humanity has lived and continues to live, and about how I have lived and continue to live my own life.

And, not least, about the great zest for life, which came back when I managed to drag myself out of the Quicksand that threatened to suck me down into the abyss. –

Henning Mankell (1948 – 2015)

# “Potent and evocative” – Nick Rennison, The Sunday Times

# “Quicksand, Mankell’s final book, is his most excoriating indictment of human folly… An extremely moving swansong.” – Jake Kerridge, Sunday Telegraph

# “Quicksand, a hybrid of essay and memoir, reflects knowledgeably on art, religion, childhood and the “final insensibility” that is our dying. Rarely has a writer contemplated the mystery of the end of life with such a wide-ranging curiosity.” – Ian Thomson, Evening Standard

Henning Mankell (1948-2015) became a worldwide phenomenon with his crime writing, gripping thrillers and atmospheric novels set in Africa. His prizewinning and critically acclaimed Inspector Wallander Mysteries continue to dominate bestseller lists all over the globe and his books have been translated into forty-five languages and made into numerous international film and television adaptations.

Henning Mankell
Quicksand
Paperback
Ed. Harvill Secker
Translated in English by Laurie Thompson
ISBN: 9781846559952

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Uit het Zweeds vert. Ceciel Verheij.
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ISBN: 9044534831

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