Used Book – Italian Shoes, Henning Mankell

Fredrik Welin lives reclusively on a Baltic island. At sixty-six, with no wife or friends, his only activity is a daily swim in an ice hole. The intrusion of Harriet, the love of his youth whom he abandoned forty years earlier, shatters his routine. Dying, she demands that he keep a promise: to show her a forest lake. Fredrik doesn't know it yet, but his life has just begun again.

Born in Sweden in 1948, Henning Mankell is one of the undisputed masters of crime fiction and an internationally renowned novelist. He divides his life between Sweden and Mozambique. The Fifth Woman, The Lone Warrior, and The Dogs of Riga, among others, are available in paperback.

"Masterpiece. Truly." L'Express Translated from Swedish by Anna Gibson