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Kennedy's Brain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781595581846)
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Henning Mankell
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xInternationally 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 discovery: 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 Carre'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.
Author: Henning Mankell
ISBN-10: 1595581847
ISBN-13: 9781595581846
Publisher: New Press
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2007
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.63w x 1.19d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/23/2007 pg. 42
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2007 pg. 830
Library Journal 09/01/2007 pg. 129
Booklist 09/01/2007 pg. 62
New York Times Book Review 10/21/2007 pg. 17
Christianity Today 01/01/2008 pg. 60
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 discovery: 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 Carre'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.
Author: Henning Mankell
ISBN-10: 1595581847
ISBN-13: 9781595581846
Publisher: New Press
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2007
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.63w x 1.19d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/23/2007 pg. 42
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2007 pg. 830
Library Journal 09/01/2007 pg. 129
Booklist 09/01/2007 pg. 62
New York Times Book Review 10/21/2007 pg. 17
Christianity Today 01/01/2008 pg. 60
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