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After the fire / Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy.

After the fire / Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy.
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ISBN 9781432845384
Name Mankell, Henning, 1948-2015 author.
Uniform title Svenska gummistövlar. English
Title After the fire / Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy.
Edition Large print edition.
Published Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2017.
©2017
Description 615 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Summary Fredrik Welin is a former surgeon who retired in disgrace decades earlier to a tiny island on which he is the only resident. He has a daughter he rarely sees and his mailman Jansson is the closest thing he has to a friend, and to an adversary. He is perfectly content to live out his days in quiet solitude. One autumn evening, he is startled awake by a blinding light, only to discover that his house is on fire. With the help of Jansson, he escapes the flames just in time wearing two left boots. Dawn reveals that everything he owns is now a smoldering pile of ash and his house is destroyed, forcing him to move into an abandoned trailer on his island. A local journalist, Lisa Modin, who wants to write a story about the fire, comes into his life. In doing so, she awakens in him something that he thought was long dead. Soon after, his daughter comes to the island with surprising news of her own. Meanwhile, the police suspect Fredrik of arson because he had a sizable insurance claim on his house. When Fredrik is away from the archipelago, another house goes up in flames and the community realizes they have an arsonist in their midst. After the Fire is an intimate portrait of an elderly recluse who is forced to open himself up to a world he'd left behind.
Language note Translated from the Swedish.
Subjects Arson -- Sweden -- Fiction
Recluses -- Sweden -- Fiction
Genre Large type books
Psychological fiction
Other Names Delargy, Marlaine translator.
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