Daniel

Hans Bengler, a young entomologist, leaves Sweden for the Kalahari Desert, determined to find a previously undiscovered insect to name after himself and advance his career Instead, he finds a young boy, whose tribe has been decimated by European raiders Accustomed to collecting specimens, Bengler re names the traumatised child Daniel and brings him home to Sweden, intending to civilise him But Daniel yearns desperately for the desert and his real family His only consolation is his friendship with a vulnerable young girl who is also an outsider in the community, but even this bond is destined to be violently broken, as Daniel s isolation and increasing desperation lead to a chilling tragedy to Hans Bengler, a young entomologist, leaves Sweden for the Kalahari Desert, determined to find a previously undiscovered insect to name after himself and advance his career Instead, he finds a young boy, whose tribe has been decimated by European raiders Accustomed to collecting specimens, Bengler re names the traumatised child Daniel and brings him home to Sweden, intending to civilise him But Daniel yearns desperately for the desert and his real family His only consolation is his friendship with a vulnerable young girl who is also an outsider in the community, but even this bond is destined to be violently broken, as Daniel s isolation and increasing desperation lead to a chilling tragedy. Best Read [ Daniel ] by [ Henning Mankell ] – kino-fada.fr I read this years ago a couple of years after reading the Wallander series still own all the paperback collections This book was sooooo different than the authors mystery thrillers but there is much to be felt that s so REAL It was after Mankell wrote this book,that I started following his blogs on his website for a period of time Mankell began to live in Africa for long periods of time when he wasn t living in Sweden His humanitarian work in the world is what stays with me..besi I read this years ago a couple of years after reading the Wallander series still own all the paperback collections This book was sooooo different than the authors mystery thrillers but there is much to be felt t...There are parallels in Henning Mankell s Daniel to Emma Donoghue s Room, another unsettling novel centered on abuse and captivity a child seen from his own point of view albeit not exclusively, as is the case with Room , a queasy undercurrent of voyeurism infecting the moral outrage felt in reading expos It s a daring breakaway from the format for which Mannkell is known.Daring, but not altogether surprising for Mankell, who has made categorizing the dark, introspective, and insightful There are parallels in Henning Mankell s Daniel to Emma Donoghue s Room, another unsettling novel centered on abuse and captivity a child seen from his own point of view albeit not exclusively, as is the case with Room , a queasy undercurrent of voyeurism infecting the moral outrage felt in reading expos It s a daring breakaway from the format for which Mannkell is known.Daring, but not altogether surprising for Mankell, who has made categorizing the dark, introspective, and insightful Kurt Wallander series as mere police procedurals seem all too narrow Daniel is very, very dark A young man in a drab little Swedish town in the latter half of the nineteenth century leaves his demented, syphilitic, dying father, and his barren home, to pursue a medical career He faints during his first autopsy He discovers he has no purpose in life, other than regular, businesslike onanism and regular, perfunctory...This is an extraordinarily haunting and poignant tale, told by an author at the top of his craft, about two destinies that intersect a young black boy Molo, who is renamed Daniel, and the peculiar would be naturalist who brings him back to Sweden It is the 1870s Hans Bengler, a rootless and disconnected man, travels to Africa with the hopes of discovering an insect no one has ever seen before, the latest of his quix...Oh heavens such a slow read I love mysteries and usually enjoy Henning Mankell s stories, but this one really tortured me Although this mystery involves the 1878 murder of a mentally deficient country girl in southern Sweden, most of the book follows the grim progress of a wanna be entomologist named Bengler who creeps around the African desert alternating between drinking, crying, and masturbating Suddenly, in what seems to be a humanitarian gesture, he buys a young African boy to adopt Oh heavens such a slow read I love mysteries and usually enjoy Henning Mankell s stories, but this one really tortured me Although this mystery involves the 1878 murder of a mentally de...Henning Mankell never disappoints Daniel is different from the author s Wallander series, although I have found some similarities with his Africa Swedish based fiction stories It does not matter what kind of story Mankell is telling, he tells it so well that you would not be able to put it down until the last page.That s precisely what I did, finishing it at one o clock this morning After I reluctantly put it down, I started thinking about what I have ...This is an utterly heart breaking story of colonnial era arrogance Swedish entomologist, Hans Bengler, in the late 1870s, whilst on an insect hunt in the Kalahari desert in Namibia, stumbles across a local orphan and decides to adopt him and take him back to Sweden On arrival, he promptly parades him as a scientific discovery in order to make money for the struggling Mr Bengler.Uprooted, confused and unable to speak the language which he eventually does learn , the boy, named Daniel by Be This is an utterly heart breaking story of colonnial era arrogance Swedish entomologist, Hans Bengler, in the late 1870s, whilst on an insect hunt in the Kalahari desert in Namibia, stumbles across a l.... Sometimes a great notion even in the talented hands of a clever author fails to live up to a reader s high hopes DANIEL is a case in point Mankell, noted for his series on Wallander, the Swedish inspector, is not only a skilled critic of his Scandanavian scene, but also a knowledgeable and sensitive observer of his adopted homeland of southern Africa specifically, Mozambique where he lives for much of the year This novel required both of his geographic areas of expertise to relate the tale Sometimes a great notion even in the talented hands of a clever author fails to live up to a reader s high hopes DANIEL is a case in point Mankell, noted for his series on Wallander, the Swedish inspector, is not only a skilled critic of his Scandanavian scene, but also a knowledgeable and sensitive observer of his adopted homeland of southern Africa specifically, Mozambique where he lives for much of the year This novel required both of his geographic areas of expertise to relate the tale of Daniel Molo , an orphaned San child from the Kalahari Desert, who is transported by a delusional pseudo entomlogist to rural Sweden in the 1870 s Great expectations indeed We can only guess about topics of racism, imperialism, culture conflict, child abuse, and psychological trauma as possible subjects that Mankell can explore Although he doe...This book is extremely poignant and compelling as well as being unsettling It is the story of a strange Swede, Hans Bengler, who goes to Africa to find an unknown species of insect to name after himself He ends up finding an orphaned black boy about 8 years old whom he brings back to Sweden He feels that he can give him a better life even though the trader where he found the boy tells him he will only destroy the boy.Hans uses Daniel in part of a carnival type lecture series to get people to This book is extremely poignant and compelling as well as being unsettling It is the story of a strange Swede, Hans Bengler, who goes to Africa to find an unknown species of insect to name after himself He ends up finding an orph...1875 Can you imagine the fear of an 8 year old African native who sees his mother and father brutally slaughtered He is then adopted by a well meaning Swedish scientist on an expedition, who believes he is saving the boy when he takes him back to Sweden The problem is that the boy is very intelligent and the scientist a complete dolt While the scientist tries to civilize Daniel and at the same time exploit him by exhibiting him at shows, Daniel tries to figure out how to get...

• English
• 12 November 2018
Henning Mankell
• Hardcover
• 288 pages
• 1843432226
• Henning Mankell
• Daniel