After the Fire

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Fredrik Welin is a seventy year old retired doctor Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an island He swims in the sea every day, cutting a hole in the ice if necessary He lives a quiet life Until he wakes up one night to find his house on fire.Fredrik escapes just in time, wearing two left footed wellies, as neighbouring islanders arrive to help douse the flames All that remains in the morning is a stinking ruin and evidence of arson The house that has been in his family for generations and all his worldly belongings are gone He cannot think who would do such a thing, or why Without a suspect, the police begin to think he started the fire himself.Tackling love, loss and loneliness,After the Fire is Henning Mankell s compelling last novel. Best Download [ After the Fire ] author [ Henning Mankell ] – kino-fada.fr I would like to thank Netgalley and Random House Uk, Vintage Publishing for an advance copy of After the Fire, a stand alone novel set in the Swedish archipelago.Fredrik Welin is a 70 year old retired surgeon who lives alone on a small island One night he wakes up to find his house on fire He manages to escape wearing only his coat, pyjamas and two left footed wellington boots, everything else burnt When the police discover arson Fredrik becomes the prime suspect because there is no one else I would like to thank Netgalley and Random House Uk, Vintage Publishing for an advance copy of After the Fire, a stand alone novel set in the Swedish archipelago.Fredrik Welin is a 70 year old retired surgeon who lives alone on a small island One night he wakes up to find his house on fire He manages to escape wearing only his coat, pyjamas and two left footed wellington boots, everything else burnt When the police discover arson Fredrik beco...In brief At time it is wonderfully poetic and often darkly so At times it gets bogged down in an old man s ramblings fine in a sense as that is what the book is about in part but it also makes it slow Somewhere between 3 and 4 I guess.Having not read any Mankell books previously I was intrigued to try this one Fredrik Wellin lives alone on a small island off the coast of Sweden amongst an archipelago of islands both inhabited and not He is a retired doctor in his seventies He wakes sudd In brief At time it is wonderfully poetic and often darkly so At times it gets bogged down in an old man s ramblings fine in a sense as that is what the book is about in part but it also makes it slow Somewhere between 3 and 4 I guess.Having not read any Mankell books previously I was intrigued to try this one Fredrik Wellin lives alone on a small island off the coast of Sweden amongst an archipelago of islands both inhabited and not He is a retired doctor in his seventies He wakes suddenly to find his house ablaze His house is burnt to the ground and he has what he stands up in This is the story of the aftermath There is a dark bleak immediacy to the writing from the start I m not Fredrik s age however I have some understanding of his thoughts and I was quickly engaged with him It feels very like an old man seeing the world exactly right It is fair to say that Fredrik tends to find things about the world ...After the Fire by Henning Mankell, translated by Marlaine Delargy, is not standard crime fiction and although there are crimes committed they are not the main focus of the book Living alone on an isolated island in the Swedish archipelago, Fredrik, a retired doctor, is devastated by the fire which destroyed the house he had inherited from his grandparents He has nothing left apart from a boathouse, where he had set up an improvised surgery, a caravan belonging to his daughter, Louise , and a After the Fire by Henning Mankell, translated by Marlaine Delargy, is not standard crime fiction and although there are crimes committed they are not the main focus of the book Living alone on an isolated island in the Swedish archipelago, Fredrik, a retired doctor, is devastated by the fire which destroyed the house he had inherited from his grandparents He has nothing left apart from a boathouse, where he had set up an improvised surgery, a caravan belonging to his daughter, Louise , and a boat Suspected by the police of starting the fire, he tries to discover the culprit.But the main emp...This was a very slow read and quite hard going A fire destroys a man s home and this is the basis of the book, we spend pages discussing this and even by half way through we are none the wiser Fredrik is 70 years old and lives by himself on an island, his wife has passed away and he has a daughter with whom he does not have a very close relationship They do not see each other often but she comes to see the burned down house as she is the one who would have inherited the property and stays for This was a very slow read and quite hard going A fire destroys a man s home and this is the basis of the book, we spend pages discussing this and even by half way through we are none the wiser Fredrik is 70 years old and lives by himself on an island, his wife has passed away and he has a daughter with whom he does not have a very close relationship They do not see each other often but she comes to see the burned down house as she is the one who would have inherited the property and stays for a while The relationship between the two is extremely strained and I found it difficult to relate to either character Fredrik must decide whether or not to rebuild the property if the insurance goes through, but as it seems it was deliberately lit he is also under suspi...I was quite surprised when this novel came out after the death of Henning Mankell, quite some time after But he kept it quite noir in that he never let love flourish for Fredrik Aways elusive always wanting As far as the story unfolds Fredrik was in his house when it was set on fire by an arsonist His daughter came to visit and told him she was pregnant and then left him with out a word She left and went to Paris Later calling him from prison He went to Paris and got her out and met the f I was quite surprised when this novel came out after the death of Henning Mankell, quite some time after But he kept it quite noir in that he never let love flourish for Fr...I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was another Mankell book out there, published soon after his death via cancer in 2015 In this rather noir Swedish tale, an elderly man awakens on his small, rocky private island to find his house ablaze And then off we go, learning about the people in the life of the 70 year old man, who may or may not teach him about who burnt down his cherished home, built by his grandfather Yes, I solved the mystery well in advance, but there are so many little I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was another Mankell book out there, published soon after his death via cancer in 2015 In this rather noir Swedish tale, an elderly man awakens on his small, rocky private island to find ...Fredrik Welin is a 70 year old Swedish doctor, who retired early after he amputated a young girls arm accidentally He lives on a tiny island in the Swedish archipelago, that his grandparents left to him He has an only daughter Louise, that he rarely sees and never knew she existed till she was 30 years old He has one friend Jansson, and I use that term loosely, who was the former postman Fredrik is completely happy living as a recluse until one night he is woken up with his house completel Fredrik Welin is a 70 year old Swedish doctor, who retired early after he amputated a young girls arm accidentally He lives on a tiny island in the Swedish archipelago, that his grandparents left to him He has an only daughter Louise, th...GNab I received a free electronic copy of this novel from Netgalley, the heirs of Henning Mankell, and Vintage Digital in exchange for an honest review Thank you all for sharing your hard work with me Fredrik Welin is a Swedish doctor who retired young to the island and skerry in the archipelago owned by his grandparents following a botched surgery that resulted in a young woman losing her arm After the death of his grandparents this retired recluse has a circle of friends and contemporaries GNab I received a free electronic copy of this novel from Netgalley, the heirs of Henning Mankell, and Vintage Digital in exchange for an honest review Thank you all for sharing y...Sad to think this posthumously published work will probably be the last we hear from the late, great Henning Mankell It is the second novel to feature retired surgeon Fredrik Welin, who lives on one of a group of small islands off the eastern Swedish coast It follows on directly from the first, Italian Shoes.Alas, all that now remains of said footwear is a charred buckle Fredrik s house is destroyed by fire and he only narrowly manages to escape wearing an old coat, pyjamas and two left foote Sad to think this posthumously published work will probably be the last we hear from the late, great Henning Mankell It is the second novel to feature retired surgeon Fredrik Welin, who lives on one of a group of small islands off the eastern Swedish coast It follows on directly from the first, Italian Shoes.Alas, all that now remains of said footwear is a charred buckle Fredrik s house is destroyed by fire and he only narrowly manages to escape wearing an old coat, pyjamas and two left footed gumboots The original title for this book...Mankell was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2014, and this novel was published in 2015 It s quite different from other mysteries he s written, moving farslowly, and it seems that the plot is secondary to his ruminations on aging, loss, love, and death It includes numerous vignettes from the main character s past that have no particular connection to the story, and add little to the reader s un...

After the Fire
  • 15 September 2018
  • Paperback
  • 416 pages
  • 1910701777
  • Henning Mankell
  • After the Fire