A treacherous paradise
By: Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson
Contributors: Thompson, Laurie, 1938-2015, translator
Publisher: ISIS; ISIS Large Print Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9780753192863; 9780753192870
Subjects: Fiction; Women, White - Mozambique - Fiction; Brothels - Mozambique - Fiction; Swedes - Mozambique - Fiction; Prostitution - Mozambique - Fiction; Interpersonal relations - Fiction; Maputo Bay (Mozambique) - Fiction; Mozambique - Fiction; Large type books
Work titles: Minnet av en smutsig angel
Description: Cold and poverty define Hanna Renstrom's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1905, at nineteen, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life. But nothing prepares her for the life she will lead. After two brief marriages, she finds herself the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa. As Hanna's story unfurls over the next several years, we watch her in this "treacherous paradise," as she wrestles with a wrenching loneliness and with the racism she's meant to unthinkingly adopt. And as her life becomes increasingly intertwined with the prostitutes, she moves inexorably toward the moment when she will make a decision that defies every expectation society has of her, and, more important, those she has of herself.
Notes: This translation originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2013.