ISBN: 0099455479
Godina izdanja: 2007
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Henning Mankell - Chronicler of the Winds
Vintage Books, 2007
233 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

On the rooftop of a theater in an African port, a ten-year-old boy lies slowly dying of bullet wounds. He is Nelio, a leader of street kids, rumored to be a healer and a prophet, and possessed of a strangely ancient wisdom. One of the millions of poor people `forced to eat life raw,` Nelio tells his unforgettable story over the course of nine nights. After bandits cruelly raze his village, he manages to flee and makes his way toward the city, where he joins the legions of abandoned children living in the streets. An act of the imagination, an effort to prove to his comrades that life must be more than mere survival and defy the power of their circumstances to define them, cuts short Nelio`s life.

A haunting and powerful story about war-torn Africa, a mystical orphan boy, and the power of narrative to give a chaotic world order.

In the hot African night a single gunshot cracks the silence. José Antonio traces the sound to the stage of the local theatre company, where he finds Nelio, the young prophetical leader of the city’s street kids, crumpled in blood. Nelio refuses to be taken to the hospital but instead tells Jose his life’s story: how bandits raided his village, his daring escape, and his struggle to survive on the streets. José is irrevocably changed. He becomes the Chronicler of the Winds, revealing Nelios’s magical tale to all who will listen.