A Bridge to the Stars (Audiobook)

from bookczuk

I love Henning Mankell's writing, and his ability to craft characters and situations that draw you into a story. This one's a bit different from many of the books of his that I've read, in that it is about a twelve year old boy in northern Sweden, and doesn't involve murder or detective-work. Ins...

from cdeuker

Some very stirring scenes in this one. A young boy, unhappy because his mother has left him and his father, falls under the spell of a friend. Together the two flirt with evil . . . our hero drawn in by the spell the other boys casts on him. The climactic scene--our hero climbs a railway trestle ...

from buffalogr

Not my kinda book. Not up to the excellent standards of Mankell's Kurt Wallender.....done with this series.

from ohioyalibrarian

Exquisitely written, translated from Swedish. A boy whose mother abandoned him and his father, longs to know about his mother amidst his father's refusal to discuss it. On his own, he pursues a dog he saw out the window late at night, a dog on his way to a star. While seeking the dog, he learns a...