{"id":1968,"date":"2007-06-17T14:58:49","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T14:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2007\/06\/chronicles_of_t\/"},"modified":"2007-06-17T14:58:49","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T14:58:49","slug":"chronicles_of_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/chronicles_of_t\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicles of the Winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0099455471&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nThis is something a bit different from Henning Mankell. I know him mainly&#8230; well exclusively really&#8230; for his Kurt Wallander novels. Or perhaps those of Wallander&#8217;s daughter, who&#8217;s lately become a police officer herself in the series.<br \/>\nBut Mankell has spent and still spends a lot of time in Africa. And that&#8217;s where this novel is set. It&#8217;s not too clear where precisely we are, but the location is somewhere sub-Saharan and is told in flashback by a small &#8220;child&#8221;. I only use those quotation marks because for a child as young as he is, the language he uses is remarkably mature.<br \/>\nNelio is the street child who&#8217;s life we hear about, and it involves slavery, death, hardship, and some episodes which remind me more of something like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/000373.html\">The Life of Pi<\/a> or even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Arabian-Nights-Everymans-Library-Classics\/dp\/1857150872\/\">Arabian Nights<\/a>.<br \/>\nNonetheless, it was a good, sad, book. And I daresay that I&#8217;m not the only Swedish crime reader who&#8217;s been sneaked off to Africa as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something a bit different from Henning Mankell. I know him mainly&#8230; well exclusively really&#8230; for his Kurt Wallander novels. Or perhaps those of Wallander&#8217;s daughter, who&#8217;s lately become a police officer herself in the series. But Mankell has spent and still spends a lot of time in Africa. And that&#8217;s where this novel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}