by Henning Mankell · POINTS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782757833711
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«Le Fils du vent» is the historical novel by Henning Mankell, published by Points in paperback (384 pages, in French).
In 1875, Hans Bengler, a young Swedish entomologist, travels to the Kalahari Desert in search of a rare insect, but returns to Sweden with an orphaned Bushman boy, Daniel. There, the boy arouses curiosity and rejection while Bengler tries to erase his past; Daniel dreams of walking on water to rejoin his ancestors.
Work originally published in Swedish as «Vindens son» in 2000; the French edition appeared in 2013 with translation by Agneta Ségol and Pascale Brick-Aïda.
For readers of historical fiction and Scandinavian narrative, with an interest in colonialism and identity.
Henning Georg Mankell was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays for television.
