In just over a year the life of Fredrik Welin, sixty-six years, will be totally bouleversée.Lui recluse who lived in the company of a cat and an old dog on a Swedish island sees one day arrive a woman he once loved and abandonnée.mais Harriet "... was a carrier of new life-not just the death that would soon pick it." And Fredrik will have to revisit the mistakes, delving into he had fled stubbornly limiting itself to an almost mechanical life itself. Indeed, as assigned by the old genius shoemaker who will prepare his iltaliennes Shoes: "It is so easy to get lost inside oneself on the paths of the woods or the city streets."
Novel about old age, solitude, time and love, this installment of Mankell is also an opportunity to address the distress of some young people that are Swedish or foreigners who have difficulty integrating into Society (author website is a nod to one of his characters, heroine of another novel, Tea-bag), showing us that it is possible to establish links between these two poles of life .
A detailed psychology but without pathos successful with delicacy to bring us to tears sometimes without being depressing, warm novel that takes us by the hand and we no longer drops.
