ISBN:

• 9781846559952
• 9780525432159

Description: 303 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title: What it means to be a human being

Notes: "Originally published in Sweden as Kvicksand by Leopard förlag, Stockholm, in 2014"--Title page verso.

Contents:

• Part I: The crooked finger
• The car accident
• People reluctantly on their way into the shadows
• The great discovery
• Quicksand
• the future is hidden underground
• the bubble in the glass
• Last will and testament
• The man in the window
• Hagar Qim
• The lion man
• Ice
• Turning time in a different direction
• A journey into the nether regions
• The young medical student
• A magician and an imposter
• A dream about a muddy trench in Flanders
• The caves
• The floating rubbish dump
• Signs
• The raft of death
• All this forgotten love
• Timbuktu
• A different archive
• The courage to be afraid
• Paris
• The hippos
• A cathedral and a cloud of dust
• Part II: The road to Salamanca
• Shadows
• Luminous teeth
• Photographs
• The way out
• Paris in flames, 1348
• How long is eternity?
• Room number 1
• The road to Salamanca, part 1
• the man who dismounted from his horse
• While the child plays
• Elena
• the awakening according to Plato
• Winter night
• Relief
• Getting lost
• The road to Salamanca, part 2
• Part III: The puppet on a string
• The earth floor
• Moving silently from darkness to darkness
• Mantova and Buenos Aires
• The stupid bird
• Who will be there in the end to listen?
• Salt water
• The buffalo with eight legs
• The secret of cave painters revealed
• The happiness brought by a rickety lorry in the spring
• The war invalid in Budapest
• A visit when something both begins and ends
• The woman with the sack of cement
• A winter in Heraklion
• Catastrophe on a German motorway
• Jealousy and shame
• The twenty-eighth day
• Meeting in a amphitheatre
• A thief and a policeman
• Youth
• The dead body on the bench for the accused
• A violent north-westerly storm
• A fictitious meeting in a park in Vienna, 1913
• The puppet on a string
• Never being robbed of one's happiness.

Subjects:

• Authors, Swedish -- 20th century -- Biography.
• Life.
• Mankell, Henning, 1948-2015, author.
• Quality of life.
• Self-actualization (Psychology)
• Well-being.

Genre:

• Autobiographies.
• Biographies.

Other Authors:

• Delargy, Marlaine, translator.
• Thompson, Laurie, 1938-2015, translator.
• translation of: Mankell, Henning, 1948-2015. Kvicksand. English.