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A Treacherous Paradise

Henning Mankell,

Laurie Thompson (Translator)

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Mar 09, 2018 Windy rated it really liked it

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The story of a young Swedish woman whose mother makes her leave home in search of a better life. She ends up in Mozambique which is no mean feat in the early 1900s. Quite a sad story which reflects the brutality of life in Africa.

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Shelves: own, genre-fiction, genre-historical-fiction, setting-africa, setting-europe, level-adult, setting-sweden, challenge-read-around-the-world, time-period-1900s, setting-mozambique

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