Imprint: Andersen
Published: 06/03/2008
ISBN: 9781842706664
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 197mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 158g
RRP: £6.99
Joel is fifteen and has left school, wanting to become a merchant sailor and travel far away from his home town in Northern Sweden. But first he must face up to the past and meet his mother who ran off when he was little. After such a long time how will Joel and his dad cope with such a reunion and will Joel ever sail the seas as he dreams. . . ?
Imprint: Andersen
Published: 06/03/2008
ISBN: 9781842706664
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 197mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 158g
RRP: £6.99
"Mankell's style (admirably retained in the translation) is as spare as the northern Swedish landscape, producing characters which etch themselves into the reader's mind, describing emotions as fundamental and searing as they are eternal."