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Italian shoes, Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson

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Italian shoes

Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson

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..