ENGLISH

Depths (Vintage)

By Henning Mankell

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0307385868, 9780307385864
LCC
PT9876.23.A49 D5913 2008
Open Library ID
OL21039967M
Language
english
Format
LIT
Filesize
439 kB (450018 bytes)
Pages
416\0
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Internationally bestselling author Henning Mankell delivers a lyrical and evocative novel about a Swedish naval engineer during World War I and his devastating plunge into obsession.In 1914 Lars Tobiasson-Svartman is covertly measuring the depths of Swedish coastal waters. A man of discipline and obsessed with exactitude, he is more comfortable on naval vessels than he is in his loveless marriage back in Stockholm. On one of his missions, Lars discovers a feral but beautiful woman living alone on a remote island. Passion, suspicion, and violence are awakened in him and soon he is living a double life-lying to his wife and his superiors and submerging himself in a pool of deception that has devastating consequences.

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