Quicksand what it means to be a human being
"In January 2014, Henning Mankell received a diagnosis of lung cancer. Quicksand is a response to this shattering news--but it is not a memoir of destruction. Instead, it is a testament to a life fully lived, a tribute to the extraordinary but fleeting human journey that delivers both boundless oppo...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Mankell, Henning, |d 1948-2015, |e author. | |
| 240 | 1 | 0 | |a Kvicksand. |l English |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Quicksand : |b what it means to be a human being / |c Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson with Marlaine Delargy. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a What it means to be a human being |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, |c 2016. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2016 | |
| 300 | |a 303 pages ; |c 21 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a "Bestselling author of An Event in Autumn"--Cover. | ||
| 500 | |a "Originally published in Sweden as Kvicksand by Leopard förlag, Stockholm, in 2014"--Title page verso. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part I: The crooked finger -- The car accident -- People reluctantly on their way into the shadows -- The great discovery -- Quicksand -- the future is hidden underground -- The bubble in the glass -- Last will and testament -- The man in the window -- Hagar Qim -- The lion man -- Ice -- Turning time in a different direction -- A journey into the nether regions -- The young medical student -- A magician and an imposter -- A dream about a muddy trench in Flanders -- The caves -- The floating rubbish dump -- Signs -- The raft of death -- All this forgotten love -- Timbuktu -- A different archive -- The courage to be afraid -- Paris -- The hippos -- A cathedral and a cloud of dust -- Part II: The road to Salamanca -- Shadows -- Luminous teeth -- Photographs -- The way out -- Paris in flames, 1348 -- How long is eternity? -- Room number 1 -- The road to Salamanca, part 1 -- The man who dismounted from his horse -- While the child plays -- Elena -- The awakening according to Plato -- Winter night -- Relief -- Getting lost -- The road to Salamanca, part 2 -- Part III: The puppet on a string -- The earth floor -- Moving silently from darkness to darkness -- Mantova and Buenos Aires -- The stupid bird -- Who will be there in the end to listen? -- Salt water -- The buffalo with eight legs -- The secret of cave painters revealed -- The happiness brought by a rickety lorry in the spring -- The war invalid in Budapest -- A visit when something both begins and ends -- The woman with the sack of cement -- A winter in Heraklion -- Catastrophe on a German motorway -- Jealousy and shame -- The twenty-eighth day -- Meeting in an amphitheatre -- A thief and a policeman -- Youth -- The dead body on the bench for the accused -- A violent north-westerly storm -- A fictitious meeting in a park in Vienna, 1913 -- The puppet on a string -- Never being robbed of one's happiness. | |
| 520 | |a "In January 2014, Henning Mankell received a diagnosis of lung cancer. Quicksand is a response to this shattering news--but it is not a memoir of destruction. Instead, it is a testament to a life fully lived, a tribute to the extraordinary but fleeting human journey that delivers both boundless opportunity and crucial responsibility. In a series of intimate vignettes, Mankell ranges over rich and varied reflections: of growing up in a small Swedish town, where he experiences a startling revelation on a winter morning as a young boy; of living hand-to-mouth during a summer in Paris as an ambitious young writer; of his work at a theater in Mozambique, where Lysistrata is staged in the midst of civil war; of chance encounters with men and women who changed his understanding of the world. Along the way, Mankell ponders the meaning of a good life, and the critically important ways we can shape the future of humanity if we are fortunate enough to have the choice. Vivid, clear-eyed, and breathtakingly beautiful, Quicksand is an invaluable parting gift from a great man."-- |c Amazon.com. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Mankell, Henning, |d 1948-2015. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Authors, Swedish |y 20th century |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Self-actualization (Psychology) | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Quality of life. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Well-being. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Life. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Autobiographies. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Biographies. |2 lcgft | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Thompson, Laurie, |d 1938-2015, |e translator. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Delargy, Marlaine, |e translator. | |
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