04148cam a2200853 4500 468441861 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307961235 0307961230 B00B0LP3TQ Amazon 798a9055-f568-4e44-b60e-0609a68954b1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 219881 219881 219881 1252999 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Mankell, Henning, 1948-2015. A Treacherous Paradise [Libby]. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013. family. Friendship. literary fiction. War. translation. Historical. romance. Fiction. crime. 19th Century. novels. classic. Swedish. Death. Collection. 20th Century. Short Stories. Historical Fiction. mystery. Drama. murder . England. Adventure. magical realism. race. Thriller. feminism. literature. Alternate History. fiction books. fantasy. Literary. historical mystery. historical novels. historical fiction novels. historical fiction books. books historical fiction. realistic fiction books. books fiction. anniversary gifts for couple. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2928kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:From the internationally acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander crime novels, a powerful stand-alone novel set in early-twentieth-century Sweden and Mozambique, whose vividly drawn female protagonist is awoken from her naïveté by her exposure to racism and by her own unexpected inner strengths.<br /> Cold and poverty define Hanna Renström's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1904, 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 both leave her widowed, she finds herself the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white colonists rule, where she is isolated within white society by her profession and her gender, and, among the bordello's black prostitutes, by her color. As Hanna's story unfurls over the next several years in this "treacherous paradise," she wrestles with a devastating 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 all the expectations society has of her and, more important, those she has of herself.<br /> Gripping in its drama, evocative and searing in its portrait of colonial Africa, <i>A Treacherous Paradise</i> is, at its heart, a deeply moving story of a woman who manages to wrench wisdom, empathy, and grace from the most unforgiving circumstances. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. Thompson, Laurie, 1938-2015. https://samples.overdrive.com/treacherous-paradise-798a90?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/treacherous-paradise-798a90?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/treacherous-paradise-798a90?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)