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In the 1870s, Hans Bengler arrives in Cape Town from Sweden, driven by a singular desire: to discover an insect no one has seen before and name it after himself. But then he impulsively adopts a young San orphan, a boy he christens Daniel and brings with him back to Sweden--a quite different specimen than he first contemplated. Daniel is told to call Bengler "Father," taught to knock on doors and bow, and continually struggles to understand this strange new land of mud and snow that surrounds and seemingly entraps him. At the same time, he is haunted by visions of his murdered parents calling him home to Africa. Knowing that the only way home is by sea, he decides he must learn to walk on water if he is ever to reclaim his true place in the world.
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Junge, Boys, Africans, San (African people), Fiction, Race relations, Relaciones raciales, Novela histo rica, Adoption, Novela, Adopcio n, Suecos, Muchachos, Swedes, Fiction, historical, South africa, fiction, Sweden, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Entomologists, Psychology, Tribes, Aliens, Social Marginality, Interracial adoption, French fiction, Translations from Swedish, Detective and mystery stories, Orphelins, Romans, nouvelles, Enfants adoptés, Roman suédois, Littérature suédoise, Fiction, historical, generalPlaces
Sweden, Kalahari Desert, Suecia, A frica, Africa, Desierto de Kalahari, AfriqueTimes
19th century, Siglo XIXShowing 9 featured editions. View all 13 editions?
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Originally published in Swedish as Vindens son.
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