Present Books As Italiaanse schoenen (Fredrik Welin #1)
| Original Title: | Italienska skor |
| ISBN: | 9044510746 (ISBN13: 9789044510744) |
| Edition Language: | Dutch |
| Series: | Fredrik Welin #1 |
| Characters: | Fredrik Welin |
Henning Mankell
Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.75 | 6658 Users | 821 Reviews
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| Title | : | Italiaanse schoenen (Fredrik Welin #1) |
| Author | : | Henning Mankell |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | February 17th 2008 by De Geus (first published 2006) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature. Cultural. Sweden. Crime. Roman. Swedish Literature |
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De ex-chirurg Fredrik woont op een eiland, met als enige gezelschap zijn hond en kat. Een geheim uit het verleden is de aanleiding voor deze zelfverkozen eenzaamheid. Op een morgen ziet hij een vrouw op het ijs. Het is Harriet, de vrouw die hij bijna veertig jaar geleden verliet zonder iets te zeggen. Ze heeft niet lang meer te leven en vraagt hem een oude belofte na te komen: haar meenemen naar een vennetje in het bos, waar ze ooit zouden gaan zwemmen als ze getrouwd waren. Dit is het begin van een bevreemdende reis, die Fredrik voor nog meer verrassingen zet. Hij wordt geconfronteerd met de dochter van wie hij niet eerder gehoord had. De reis door het winterse Zweden wordt ook een reis door zijn eigen leven. Hij moet onder ogen zien wie hij werkelijk is en verantwoording nemen voor de catastrofe die hij ooit veroorzaakte.Rating Appertaining To Books Italiaanse schoenen (Fredrik Welin #1)
Ratings: 3.75 From 6658 Users | 821 ReviewsRate Appertaining To Books Italiaanse schoenen (Fredrik Welin #1)
Truly wonderful, moving book. I don't want to write much about it because I have the follow-up book that picks up 8 years after the end of this one that I want to jump right into. I loved this book for many reasons. Old man living solitary life on island off Sweden's coast with his dog and cat. The solitary part ends when an old woman appears out on the ice with her walker.Circumstances change slowly at first and then very dramatically. LOVED the book.Kindle UnlimitedAny five-star book is worth reading again, and this one certainly is. Full disclosure: if you're looking for a sunny book about rainbows, fluff and feathers, you've come to the wrong place. Mankell's writing is raw, real and leaves you thinking about yourself. In this well-written story, a retired surgeon, living alone on his own rocky island, is forced to confront his girlfriend from 50 years ago when she suddenly shows up unannounced, and from that point on, the man's life changes
A strange and melancholic story of a man hiding away from life on his lonely island. It made me quite sad and I don't really know what to think about it. I think Mankell wanted to write about a charmless man in his late sixties who finally gets his comeuppance, so to speak. Life catches up with him, his first love he once abandoned without a single word of explanation, a daughter he never knew existed, a woman he mutilated during a surgery years before - Fredrik Welin used to be a surgeon and by
Not a page turner. Not a mystery, at least, not a typical Mankell mystery. Italian Shoes is rather like an exercise in learning how to read slowly and sumptuously. Sixty-six year old Frederick Welin for the last twelve years has lived reclusively on an island, formerly owned by his grandparents, in an archipelago off the coast of Sweden. He was an educated man, a medical man. who made a mistake which drove him Grendel-like to the edge of civilization. As a result, he had all the time in the
This was such a weird book. Felt very meandering and pointless and strangely plotted but like the kind of book that you could picture some really highbrow literary person saying was sooooooo amazing and had all these hidden themes and meanings but an average reader ( like me) would be totally baffled by...
This novel is not part of the Wallander series and no crime is involved. It may be unusual in that the two most important characters are both old. Frederick Welin is a surgeon, now retired, who lives on a Swedish island. But for his cat and his dog, both of whom are also old, he lives alone. Given his anti-social tendencies that may be just as well. The only regular contact he has is with Jansson, a postman who delivers what little mail he gets. Jansson is a hypochondriac who regularly has Welin
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