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The Shadow Girls
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ISBN10: 0307385930
ISBN13: 9780307385932
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Nov 5 2013
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780307385932
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Nov 5 2013
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
From the dean of Scandinavian noirand the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series, comes this moving and profound literary novel about three refugee women and the poet they befriend.
Jesper Humlin is a mildly famous author and poet with lackluster book sales. Not even his editor will support his artistic vision, suggesting instead that he start writing crime novels in the place of poetry. In his travels, Humlin encounters three women who will change his worldview. All three have fled their home countries and settled in Sweden: Leyla from Iran, Tanya from Russia, and Tea-Bag from Nigeria. The women look to Humlin for guidance in telling their stories, learning how to shape the tales of their journeys and sacrifices. Both social comedy and social tragedy ensue from these efforts, but in the end Humlin, Leyla, Tanya and Tea-Bag all find that they have helped change one another. The Shadow Girls is an absorbing tale of how a diverse society changes--and is changed by--its citizens, whoever they are
Jesper Humlin is a mildly famous author and poet with lackluster book sales. Not even his editor will support his artistic vision, suggesting instead that he start writing crime novels in the place of poetry. In his travels, Humlin encounters three women who will change his worldview. All three have fled their home countries and settled in Sweden: Leyla from Iran, Tanya from Russia, and Tea-Bag from Nigeria. The women look to Humlin for guidance in telling their stories, learning how to shape the tales of their journeys and sacrifices. Both social comedy and social tragedy ensue from these efforts, but in the end Humlin, Leyla, Tanya and Tea-Bag all find that they have helped change one another. The Shadow Girls is an absorbing tale of how a diverse society changes--and is changed by--its citizens, whoever they are
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