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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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Main Author: Mankell, Henning, 1948-2015 (Author)
Other Authors: Thompson, Laurie, 1938-2015 (Translator), Delargy, Marlaine (Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Swedish
Published: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016.
Subjects:
Mankell, Henning, > 1948-2015.
Authors, Swedish > 20th century > Biography.
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Quality of life.
Well-being.
Life.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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