2.3
Un ángel impuro
En 2002, bajo el entarimado medio podrido de una habitación del antaño lujoso Africa Hotel, en la ciudad mozambiqueña de Beira, un hombre encuentra un viejo cuaderno; en la tapa lee un nombre y una fecha: «Hanna Lundmark, 1905», pero el cuaderno está escrito en una lengua que desconoce. En 1904, casi un siglo antes de ese extraño hallazgo, una mujer del interior de Suecia desea para su primogénita, Hanna, una vida mejor, y decide enviarla a casa de unos parientes que viven en la costa. Comienzan entonces las peripecias de esa joven valerosa cuyos pasos la llevan a enrolarse como cocinera en un barco que parte rumbo a Australia. Sin embargo, antes de llegar a su destino, Hanna desembarcará en Lourenço Marques (antiguo nombre de Maputo) y, enferma, recalará en O Paraiso, el burdel más famoso de la región. Poco sospecha que acabará regentando el prostíbulo, poblado por seres variopintos como su propietario, el senhor Vaz, el despiadado bóer Fredrik Prinsloo, mujeres como Felicia o Belinda Bonita, o el chimpancé Carlos.
Fiction
RELEASED2012
PUBLISHERTusquets Editores S.A.
LENGTH344
LANGUAGEES
Henning Mankell was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of a judge. He grew up in the towns of Sveg and Borås. His grandfather, also called Henning Mankell (1868–1930), was a well-known composer. At the age of 20, Mankell was the assistant director at the Riks Theater in Stockholm, and he was also writing. In the 1970s he moved to Norway, where he lived with a woman who was a member of the Maoist Communist Labour Party, although he never officially joined the Party. He moved to Africa and lived in several African countries, and in 1985 he founded the Avenida Theater in Maputo, Mozambique, where he continues to spend about half of every year. In 1997 he began his most well-known series of novels, a series of murder mysteries set in Ystad, Sweden, featuring the police detective Kurt Wallander. He also established a publishing house, Leopard Förlag, to publish young talents from both Africa and Sweden. He is married to Eva Bergman, daughter of Ingmar Bergman.
2.3
Un ángel impuro
En 2002, bajo el entarimado medio podrido de una habitación del antaño lujoso Africa Hotel, en la ciudad mozambiqueña de Beira, un hombre encuentra un viejo cuaderno; en la tapa lee un nombre y una fecha: «Hanna Lundmark, 1905», pero el cuaderno está escrito en una lengua que desconoce. En 1904, casi un siglo antes de ese extraño hallazgo, una mujer del interior de Suecia desea para su primogénita, Hanna, una vida mejor, y decide enviarla a casa de unos parientes que viven en la costa. Comienzan entonces las peripecias de esa joven valerosa cuyos pasos la llevan a enrolarse como cocinera en un barco que parte rumbo a Australia. Sin embargo, antes de llegar a su destino, Hanna desembarcará en Lourenço Marques (antiguo nombre de Maputo) y, enferma, recalará en O Paraiso, el burdel más famoso de la región. Poco sospecha que acabará regentando el prostíbulo, poblado por seres variopintos como su propietario, el senhor Vaz, el despiadado bóer Fredrik Prinsloo, mujeres como Felicia o Belinda Bonita, o el chimpancé Carlos.
Fiction
RELEASED2012
PUBLISHERTusquets Editores S.A.
LENGTH344
LANGUAGEES
Henning Mankell was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of a judge. He grew up in the towns of Sveg and Borås. His grandfather, also called Henning Mankell (1868–1930), was a well-known composer. At the age of 20, Mankell was the assistant director at the Riks Theater in Stockholm, and he was also writing. In the 1970s he moved to Norway, where he lived with a woman who was a member of the Maoist Communist Labour Party, although he never officially joined the Party. He moved to Africa and lived in several African countries, and in 1985 he founded the Avenida Theater in Maputo, Mozambique, where he continues to spend about half of every year. In 1997 he began his most well-known series of novels, a series of murder mysteries set in Ystad, Sweden, featuring the police detective Kurt Wallander. He also established a publishing house, Leopard Förlag, to publish young talents from both Africa and Sweden. He is married to Eva Bergman, daughter of Ingmar Bergman.
