ISBN: 0099502763
Godina izdanja: 2007
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Henning Mankell - Kennedy`s Brain
Vintage, 2007
464 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

Translated from the swedish by Laurie Thompson

Internationally bestselling novelist Henning Mankell delivers a terrifying thriller inspired by the tragedy of the AIDS epidemic in Africa.

Henning Mankell, the acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, has put his unmistakable stamp on this gripping new thriller. Archaeologist Louise Cantor returns home to Sweden and makes a devastating her only child, twenty-eight-year-old Henrik, dead in his bed. The police rule his death a suicide but she knows he was murdered; her quest to find out what really happened to Henrik takes her across the globe to Barcelona, where her son kept a secret apartment; Sydney, Australia, to find Aron, her estranged ex-husband and Henrik`s father; and to Maputo, Mozambique, where she learns the awful truth behind an AIDS hospice. Her investigation reveals how much her son concealed from her as she uncovers the links between his death, the African AIDS epidemic, and Western pharmaceutical interests, while those who dare help her are killed off.

In the tradition of John le Carré`s The Constant Gardener, Kennedy`s Brain was inspired by Mankell`s anger at ongoing inequities that permit a few people to have unprecedented power over the many poor Africans who have none. Already a bestseller in Europe, Kennedy`s Brain is both a thrilling page-turner and a damning indictment of inhuman greed in the face of the African AIDS crisis.

THIS IS TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE-THE FINELY-CRAFTED THRILLER YOU`D EXPECT FROM MANKELL, AND THE POWERFUL SOCIAL COMMENT YOU WOULDN`T DAILY SPORT

When archaeologist Louise Cantor`s son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Clues that only a mother could detect lead her to believe something more sinister took place.
In her grief she begins to investigate Henrik`s death and when Louise finds a photograph of an unknown girlfriend in Mozambique she decides to travel there. She sees fear in every face, even unexpectedly in the patients at the AIDS clinics set up by an American businessman. Slowly Louise realises she has immersed herself in something far bigger than her son`s death...

`ON ONE LEVEL IT IS A MYSTERY, BUT IT IS ALSO AN ANGRY POLEMIC ON A SUBJECT THAT MANKELL FEELS STRONGLY ABOUT THE UNNECESSARY SUFFERING OF AIDS VICTIMS IN AFRICA` THE TIMES

`A JOURNEY INTO THE DARKEST REACHES OF EXPLOITATION` DAILY TELEGRAPH

`MANKELL IS WRITING WITH HIS HEART ON HIS SLEEVE, AND THE SUBJECT MATTER IS A WORTHY ONE IRISH TIMES

`A TIGHTLY WOVEN INVESTIGATION INTO THE STATE OF CIVILISATION IN THE LIGHT OF THE AIDS EPIDEMIC TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT


Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, 0099502763