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The Shadow Girls
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The Shadow Girls Hardcover - 2012

by Mankell, Henning

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A poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales, an exasperated girlfriend, a demanding mother, and a rapidly fading tan starts an unlikely writing group that requires more of him than he first imagined in this humorous and heartbreaking work.

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  • Title The Shadow Girls
  • Author Mankell, Henning
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Us Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Press, The, New York
  • Date 2012-10
  • Features Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4676992-6
  • ISBN 9781595581921 / 1595581928
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.2 in (23.62 x 15.49 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Scandinavian
  • Library of Congress subjects Refugees, Sweden
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012017687
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Foreword, 12/03/2012, Page 0
  • New York Times Book Review, 01/20/2013, Page 20
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/03/2012, Page 44
  • Shelf Awareness, 10/26/2012, Page 0

About the author

Bestselling author Henning Mankell has received numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association's Macallan Gold Dagger and the German Tolerance Prize. His Kurt Wallander mysteries are global bestsellers and have been adapted into the PBS Masterpiece Mystery! series Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh. He divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique. Ebba Segerberg has translated One Step Behind, Firewall, and Before the Frost by Henning Mankell (all available from The New Press) and Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.