TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mankell, Henning 
TI  - QUICKSAND : What It Means to Be a Human Being
SN  - 9781784701567
U1  - 928 
PY  - 2014////01/01
CY  - London
PB  - Vintage
KW  - Biography
KW  - Memoir
KW  - Henning Georg Mankell -- 1948-2015
KW  - Swedish Literature
KW  - Swedish crime writer
KW  - Authors, Swedish -- 20th century -- Biography
KW  - Self-actualization (Psychology)
N1  - Henning Georg Mankell was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander.

"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."
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