Joel Gustafson — by Henning Mankell

• 1990
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One of the world's best-selling authors has written a moving story about a teenager's life in Northern Sweden. 12-year-old Joel lives with his father in the cold northern part of Sweden. At night he often sneaks out of the house to look for a lone...

• 1991
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JOEL WILL SOON be 12, and he thinks nothing is going on in the small community where he lives. But he's wrong. One day, an incident that could easily have been a catastrophe turns into a miracle. Now Joel believes he owes the world a good deed, to pr...

• 1996
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Joel Gustafson's journey toward becoming a man continues. As it has in the past, the first snow of the year signifies to Joel Gustafson his very own New Year's Eve. So when the snow begins to fall on a cold November day, Joel gets busy making new ...

• 1998
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Continuing Mankell's magical account of a boyhood spent in northern Sweden, Joel is fifteen and has left school, wanting to become a merchant sailor and travel far away from his home town in the north of Sweden. But first he must face up to the past ...

• Aug-2009
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Readers met Sofia previously in Secrets in the Fire, when, at the age of 9, she lost her legs in a land mine explosion.Now Sofia is almost 20 and pregnant with her third child. Armando, the father of her children, travels to the city to work, coming ...