Italiaanse schoenen (Fredrik Welin #1)
In medicine, a mistake, is often irreversible and lives are changed forever. One day you are a surgeon.....how then, do you end up on a island in a house where an anthill occupies one of the bedrooms? This is a beautifully written, intriguingly, unpredictable story with an eclectic cast of characters. A story of self-isolation and loneliness abruptly ends when a figure from his past finds Fredrik on his island. Life as it was is no more. One change leads to another and his life will never be the
Any five-star book is worth reading again, and this one certainly is. Full disclosure: if you're looking for a sunny book about rainbows, fluff and feathers, you've come to the wrong place. Mankell's writing is raw, real and leaves you thinking about yourself. In this well-written story, a retired surgeon, living alone on his own rocky island, is forced to confront his girlfriend from 50 years ago when she suddenly shows up unannounced, and from that point on, the man's life changes
Truly wonderful, moving book. I don't want to write much about it because I have the follow-up book that picks up 8 years after the end of this one that I want to jump right into. I loved this book for many reasons. Old man living solitary life on island off Sweden's coast with his dog and cat. The solitary part ends when an old woman appears out on the ice with her walker.Circumstances change slowly at first and then very dramatically. LOVED the book.Kindle Unlimited
BREAKING NEWS JAN 2011: Brannagh and Hopkins are filming this book.Product DescriptionOnce a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table. One morning in the depths of winter, he sees a hunched figure struggling towards him across the ice. His past is about to catch up with him. The figure approaching in the
Readers! This is truly a book which is beautifully written, narrated with emotions which complex you, simple characters, simplicity personified through the life of the main character who banishes himself to the cold freezing ice covered island of Sweden where he lives a life of loneliness, sorrow and repent. But footprints in the snow one fine morning changes his life forever...the book is meant to be slow, taking the reader through all the emotions of cold biting winter and cold biting
A strange and melancholic story of a man hiding away from life on his lonely island. It made me quite sad and I don't really know what to think about it. I think Mankell wanted to write about a charmless man in his late sixties who finally gets his comeuppance, so to speak. Life catches up with him, his first love he once abandoned without a single word of explanation, a daughter he never knew existed, a woman he mutilated during a surgery years before - Fredrik Welin used to be a surgeon and by
Henning Mankell
Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.75 | 6658 Users | 821 Reviews
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Title | : | Italiaanse schoenen (Fredrik Welin #1) |
Author | : | Henning Mankell |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
Published | : | February 17th 2008 by De Geus (first published 2006) |
Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature. Cultural. Sweden. Crime. Roman. Swedish Literature |
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De ex-chirurg Fredrik woont op een eiland, met als enige gezelschap zijn hond en kat. Een geheim uit het verleden is de aanleiding voor deze zelfverkozen eenzaamheid. Op een morgen ziet hij een vrouw op het ijs. Het is Harriet, de vrouw die hij bijna veertig jaar geleden verliet zonder iets te zeggen. Ze heeft niet lang meer te leven en vraagt hem een oude belofte na te komen: haar meenemen naar een vennetje in het bos, waar ze ooit zouden gaan zwemmen als ze getrouwd waren. Dit is het begin van een bevreemdende reis, die Fredrik voor nog meer verrassingen zet. Hij wordt geconfronteerd met de dochter van wie hij niet eerder gehoord had. De reis door het winterse Zweden wordt ook een reis door zijn eigen leven. Hij moet onder ogen zien wie hij werkelijk is en verantwoording nemen voor de catastrofe die hij ooit veroorzaakte.Itemize Books As Italiaanse schoenen (Fredrik Welin #1)
Original Title: | Italienska skor |
ISBN: | 9044510746 (ISBN13: 9789044510744) |
Edition Language: | Dutch |
Series: | Fredrik Welin #1 |
Characters: | Fredrik Welin |
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Ratings: 3.75 From 6658 Users | 821 ReviewsComment On Appertaining To Books Italiaanse schoenen (Fredrik Welin #1)
This was such a weird book. Felt very meandering and pointless and strangely plotted but like the kind of book that you could picture some really highbrow literary person saying was sooooooo amazing and had all these hidden themes and meanings but an average reader ( like me) would be totally baffled by...In medicine, a mistake, is often irreversible and lives are changed forever. One day you are a surgeon.....how then, do you end up on a island in a house where an anthill occupies one of the bedrooms? This is a beautifully written, intriguingly, unpredictable story with an eclectic cast of characters. A story of self-isolation and loneliness abruptly ends when a figure from his past finds Fredrik on his island. Life as it was is no more. One change leads to another and his life will never be the
Any five-star book is worth reading again, and this one certainly is. Full disclosure: if you're looking for a sunny book about rainbows, fluff and feathers, you've come to the wrong place. Mankell's writing is raw, real and leaves you thinking about yourself. In this well-written story, a retired surgeon, living alone on his own rocky island, is forced to confront his girlfriend from 50 years ago when she suddenly shows up unannounced, and from that point on, the man's life changes
Truly wonderful, moving book. I don't want to write much about it because I have the follow-up book that picks up 8 years after the end of this one that I want to jump right into. I loved this book for many reasons. Old man living solitary life on island off Sweden's coast with his dog and cat. The solitary part ends when an old woman appears out on the ice with her walker.Circumstances change slowly at first and then very dramatically. LOVED the book.Kindle Unlimited
BREAKING NEWS JAN 2011: Brannagh and Hopkins are filming this book.Product DescriptionOnce a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table. One morning in the depths of winter, he sees a hunched figure struggling towards him across the ice. His past is about to catch up with him. The figure approaching in the
Readers! This is truly a book which is beautifully written, narrated with emotions which complex you, simple characters, simplicity personified through the life of the main character who banishes himself to the cold freezing ice covered island of Sweden where he lives a life of loneliness, sorrow and repent. But footprints in the snow one fine morning changes his life forever...the book is meant to be slow, taking the reader through all the emotions of cold biting winter and cold biting
A strange and melancholic story of a man hiding away from life on his lonely island. It made me quite sad and I don't really know what to think about it. I think Mankell wanted to write about a charmless man in his late sixties who finally gets his comeuppance, so to speak. Life catches up with him, his first love he once abandoned without a single word of explanation, a daughter he never knew existed, a woman he mutilated during a surgery years before - Fredrik Welin used to be a surgeon and by
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