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A treacherous paradise
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- ISBN: 9780307362452 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307362450 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource - Publisher: Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2013.
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| General Note: | "Originally published in Sweden as Minnet av en smutsig angel by Leopard Förlag, Stockholm, in 2011." |
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| Subject: | Widows -- Fiction Maputo Bay (Mozambique) -- Fiction |
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- Random House, Inc.
From the internationally acclaimed author of the Wallander crime series, a dramatic new standalone novel set in turn-of-the-century Sweden and Mozambique, whose indomitable female protagonist is awoken from naiveté by her exposure to racism, and by her own unexpected inner strengths.
Cold and poverty define Hanna Renström's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1905, at 19, 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 2 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 colour. 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 importantly, those she has of herself.
