Quicksand: What It Means to Be a Human Being

A surprising and poignant autobiographical have a look at the myriad stories that form a significant lifestyles, by means of the bestselling creator of the Kurt Wallander mysteries.  
 
In January 2014, Henning Mankell gained a analysis of lung most cancers. Quicksand is a reaction to this shattering information—however it isn’t a memoir of destruction. As an alternative, this is a testomony to a lifestyles absolutely lived, a tribute to the unusual however fleeting human adventure that can provide each boundless chance and the most important duty. In a sequence of intimate vignettes, Mankell levels over wealthy and sundry reflections: of rising up in a small Swedish the city, the place he stories a startling revelation on a iciness morning as a tender boy; of residing hand-to-mouth all the way through a summer season in Paris as an formidable younger author; of his paintings at a theater in Mozambique, the place Lysistrata is staged in the middle of civil conflict; of likelihood encounters with women and men who modified his figuring out of the arena. Alongside the way in which, Mankell ponders the that means of a excellent lifestyles, and the seriously vital tactics we will form the way forward for humanity if we’re lucky sufficient to have the selection. Bright, transparent-eyed, and breathtakingly gorgeous, Quicksand is a useful parting reward from a super guy.