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Indlæser... Tea-Bagaf Henning Mankell
   Ingen Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.   Lin456 | Oct 21, 2020 |  http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/14155029 I have read several - I think all - of Mankell's Wallander mysteries. So I have been exploring other books by him. This one is a strange one indeed, although it incorporates some familiar themes. Jesper Humlin is a self-centered poet who has achieved a small amount of fame in Sweden. He is discovering that poetry books are selling fewer and fewer copies and he wants to break into some other kind of writing. A fellow poet tells him he is writing a thriller and Humlin's publisher wants the same from him. But he feels he can't debase himself that far. Somewhat by accident Humlin finds himself giving a reading to a small group that includes young women who have fled from their native countries and are in Sweden illegally. One of them wants to write her story and Humlin offers to teach them all to write. Interspersed with Humlin's story are stories from Tea-Bag and two others, although we come to wonder how much is true of each. Nevertheless, the stories are not uncommon and Humlin knows the essences are true. While besieged at times by his aggressive publisher, a complaining mother, and a woman friend, Humlin lets go of his own life and starts to see outside himself for once. Still thinking down the line of how he can exploit what he is learning, he gradually is overtaken by the power of the young women's stories on their own. The story is oddly funny, as Mankell gives some of the characters behavior that is well outside normal, yet he does it in such a dry, almost telegraphic way that I hoped it would be more fleshed out. In general I have found Mankell to create characters who are only partially drawn, as if he is impatient, wants to get on with the story. It is an odd mix of pathos and humor that left me wondering. (  ) slojudy | Sep 8, 2020 | amyem58 | Jul 18, 2020 | ) Martapagessala | Jan 22, 2019 |  ) LiteraryW | Mar 19, 2018 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Jesper Humlin is a poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales, an exasperated girlfriend, a demanding mother, and a rapidly fading tan. His boy-wonder stockbroker has squandered Humlin's investments, and his editor, who says he must write a crime novel to survive, begins to pitch and promote the nonexistent book despite Humlin's emphatic refusals. Then, when he travels to Gothenburg to give a reading, he finds himself thrust into an entirely different world, where names shift, stories overlap, and histories are both deeply secret and in profound need of retelling. Leyla from Iran, Tanya from Russia, and Tea-Bag, who is from Africa but claims to be from Kurdistan (because Kurds might receive preferential treatment as refugees) these are the shadow girls who become Humlin's unlikely pupils in impromptu writing workshops. Though he had imagined their stories as fodder for his own book, soon their intertwining lives require him to play a much different role. No library descriptions found. |
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