Windy Chronicler blows away reader
Under a hot, tropical night sky, Jose Antonio Maria Vaz stands on a desolate rooftop, with his clothing in tatters, waiting for the world to end. He is the vagrant apostle known as the "Chronicler of the Winds."
Henning Mankell opens his novel with this textual cinematic shot that entices and fully engages the reader's imagination: A prophet of the apocalypse speaks to us, preaching about the 10-year-old anti-messianic African child who burst into his life when he found the boy on a stage, soaking in his own blood. "Chronicler of the Winds" pries open a mischievous world of...
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