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Tea-bag

Tea-bag

by Henning Mankell

2001Swedish fictionGerman language materialsRefugeesAuthorsTranslations into German
4.0
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La vida del célebre poeta sueco Jesper Humlin puede ser tan regalada como vacua, tocada por el desasosiego de la sociedad de la abundancia, sumida en una inanidad apenas salpimentada por las trifulcas con su pareja, las envidias de sus colegas o los apremios de sus editores. Sin embargo, parecería que Jesper conserva un resto de dignidad cuando rechaza la propuesta de su editor de que escriba novelas policíacas, que venden cincuenta veces más que la poesía (¡si hasta su anciana madre se ha puesto a escribir una!). Y quizá sea ese vestigio de decencia lo que desencadene su interés por las historias de unas inmigrantes que conoce durante una lectura poética de su obra. Entre ellas está una joven africana, Tea-Bag, el relato de cuya huida de su aldea, el atroz viaje hacia el norte –con obligada «escala» en las costas españolas– y su llegada a Suecia, donde sigue siendo ilegal, acabará por descolocar, y redimir, al fatuo Jesper. Porque son las conmovedoras historias de las inmigrantes –personas de carne y hueso– las que dan cuerpo a esta novela que abre los ojos a una cruda realidad con la que convivimos pero que pocas veces nos atrevemos a mirar de frente. Y Henning Mankell, en un ejercicio comprometido no exento de humor e ironía –«No me gustan las novelas policiacas. Me aburren», afirma Jesper Humlin–, no sólo da voz a esas personas tantas veces silenciadas sino que esboza una turbadora intuición: la de que sólo a través de ellas podemos ya desembarazarnos del peso de nuestro cinismo.

Themes & subjects

Swedish fictionGerman language materialsRefugeesAuthorsTranslations into GermanFiction
First published 2001

Setting

SuèdeSwedenSchweden

About the author

Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell

3 February 1948 – 2015-10-05

Henning Mankell was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of a judge. He grew up in the towns of Sveg and Borås. His grandfather, also called Henning Mankell (1868–1930), was a well-known composer. At the age of 20, Mankell was the assistant director at the Riks Theater in Stockholm, and he was also writing. In the 1970s he moved to Norway, where he lived with a woman who was a member of the Maoist Communist Labour Party, although he never officially joined the Party. He moved to Africa and lived in several African countries, and in 1985 he founded the Avenida Theater in Maputo, Mozambique, where he continues to spend about half of every year. In 1997 he began his most well-known series of nove…

Author

Henning Mankell

First published

2001

Pages

336

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

18

Languages

English, German, French

Publisher

Harvill Secker

ISBN

9780099582069

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