Italian Shoes
by Henning Mankell | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780099548362 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 9780099548362 Global Overview for this book
Registered by chab of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode / Sint-Joost-ten-Node, Bruxelles / Brussel Belgium on 4/16/2014
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Journal Entry 1 by chab from Saint-Josse-ten-Noode / Sint-Joost-ten-Node, Bruxelles / Brussel Belgium on Wednesday, April 16, 2014
"Living on a tiny island entirely surrounded by ice during the long winter months, Fredrik Welin is so lost to the world that he cuts a hole in the ice every morning and lowers himself into the freezing water to remind himself that he is alive. Haunted by memories of the terrible mistake that drove him to abandon a successful career as a surgeon, he lives in a stasis so complete an anthill grows undisturbed in his living room." "Then an unexpected visitor alters his life completely: Harriet, whom he inexplicably abandoned in the midst of their youthful romance, turns up decades after they last saw each other and demands that Fredrik fulfill an old promise and take her to the forest pool he visited as a youth. Thus begins their eccentric, elegiac journey, leading to undreamt-of connections." A moving tale of loss and redemption, Italian Shoes is a testament to the unpredictability of life, which breeds hope even in the face of tragedy.
Journal Entry 2 by chab at Youth Hostel Van Gogh - CHAB in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode / Sint-Joost-ten-Node, Bruxelles / Brussel Belgium on Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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"Living on a tiny island entirely surrounded by ice during the long winter months, Fredrik Welin is so lost to the world that he cuts a hole in the ice every morning and lowers himself into the freezing water to remind himself that he is alive. Haunted by memories of the terrible mistake that drove him to abandon a successful career as a surgeon, he lives in a stasis so complete an anthill grows undisturbed in his living room." "Then an unexpected visitor alters his life completely: Harriet, whom he inexplicably abandoned in the midst of their youthful romance, turns up decades after they last saw each other and demands that Fredrik fulfill an old promise and take her to the forest pool he visited as a youth. Thus begins their eccentric, elegiac journey, leading to undreamt-of connections." A moving tale of loss and redemption, Italian Shoes is a testament to the unpredictability of life, which breeds hope even in the face of tragedy.