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008 130305s2013 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2013005864
020 $a9780307961228 (hbk.)
020 $a0307961222 (hbk.)
024 $a40022507661
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn829645884
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050 00 $aPT9876.23.A49$bM6613 2013
082 00 $a839.73/74$223
100 1 $aMankell, Henning,$d1948-2015.
240 10 $aMinnet av en smutsig ängel.$lEnglish
245 12 $aA treacherous paradise /$cHenning Mankell ; Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson.
250 $aFirst Edition.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2013.
300 $a359 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $a"THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK."
500 $a"Originally published in Sweden as Minnet av en smutsig angel by Leopard Förlag, Stockholm, in 2011."
520 $aCold and poverty define Hanna Renstrom's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1905, at nineteen, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life. But none of her hopes--or fears--prepares her for the life she will lead. After two brief marriages, she finds herself a widow twice over, and the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white supremacy rule, where she is isolated within society by her profession and her sex, and, among the bordello's black prostitutes, by her color. As Hanna's story unfurls over the next several years, we watch her in this "treacherous paradise," as she wrestles with a constant, wrenching loneliness and with the racism she's meant to unthinkingly adopt. And as her life becomes increasingly intertwined with the prostitutes, she moves inexorably toward the moment when she will make a decision that defies every expectation society has of her, and, more important, those she has of herself.
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
650 0 $aWomen, White$zMozambique$vFiction.
650 0 $aSwedes$zMozambique$vFiction.
650 0 $aBrothels$zMozambique$vFiction.
650 0 $aProstitution$zMozambique$vFiction.
651 0 $aMaputo Bay (Mozambique)$vFiction.
852 00 $bglx$hPT9876.23.A49$iM6613 2013