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037			_cPurchased _nCurrent Books,Convent Jn,Ernakulam
041			_aEnglish
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100			_aMankell, Henning
245			_aQUICKSAND : What It Means to Be a Human Being
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260			_aLondon _bVintage _c2014/01/01
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500			_aHenning 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."
650			_aBiography
650			_aMemoir
650			_aHenning Georg Mankell -- 1948-2015.
650			_aSwedish Literature
650			_aSwedish crime writer
650			_aAuthors, Swedish -- 20th century -- Biography
650			_aSelf-actualization (Psychology)
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