A Treacherous Paradise, (Paperback)

from bookczuk

My main familiarity with Mankell is as the man who brought eloquence to the basic thriller,through the telling of his stories, with beautifully his flawed, human characters. For that reason, I picked this book off the shelf. For the mystery and glimpse into a different world that the jacket blurb...

from janerawoof

3.5 rounded to a 4. One of Mankell's stand-alone novels. Setting in 1904 Sweden and Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique]. Interesting premise, based on a snippet Mankell had read and from which he imagined and based a whole story: a Swedish woman came out of nowhere, ran a brothel, then just as su...

from pnorman4345

This takes place just after 1900. A poor Swedish girl from the north is sent to a coast city by her mother when famine arrives. She signs onto a boat as a cook, marries, her husband dies and she gets off the boat in Mozambique, ends up head of a brothel, tries to find herself.

from Olivermagnus

I'm a huge fan of Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander mysteries as well as his stand alones so when I saw he had a new novel I rushed out to get it. The premise sounded really interesting. A young Swedish woman, Hanna Renstrom, leaves Sweden for Australia in 1904 as a ship's cook. While on the voyag...

from CasaBooks

A bit of a torturous read about treachery and not much paradise included. As I often say, not disappointed to have read and finished it. However, believe you must be a Mankell afficionado to get the most from this novel. I've watched his Wallender series and enjoyed it. This is the first of his b...