Depths (Vintage) by Henning Mankell (ISBN:0307385868)

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		Depths (Vintage)
	
				(14 reviews)			
(297 Readers)

			Henning Mankell		
	
Internationally bestselling author Henning Mankell delivers a lyrical and evocative novel about a Swedish naval engineer during World War I and his...more
 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.   less

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Kjedelig og ikke en bok jeg gidder å lese om igjenn i allefall.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
It took me 4 months to eventually finish it...It's not bad at all, but something in the plot should be added...anyway when all the lies come together it improves:)
Naval engineer Lars Svartman " buoilt his existence on distances instead of seeking closeness".

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
This book is totally mesmerising - it draws you in and completely envelopes you, despite the fact that I still can't put my finger on why that is. The subject and content is bleak. The title is entirely appropriate, paralleling the main character's profession (depth sounder) and the examination of the depths of his nature.

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							Susanne
						
							few weeks ago						
Quite good at the end, but it was very hard to get through the first 200 pages....

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
The most recent of his that I've read. . creepy and great. HM runs a Memory Project for AIDS orphans in Maputo, and yet he depicts the self-obsessed so amazingly well.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
This was the first Henning Mankell book that I read and I was hooked not only because he is a superb writer, but a winning story teller.  You are drawn in and find that you don't want the book to end but have to find out how it concludes.  I am just happy he is such a prolific writer.  This book stands independent from all the others that I subsequently read in that it is the only one to...more
 This was the first Henning Mankell book that I read and I was hooked not only because he is a superb writer, but a winning story teller.  You are drawn in and find that you don't want the book to end but have to find out how it concludes.  I am just happy he is such a prolific writer.  This book stands independent from all the others that I subsequently read in that it is the only one to follow a human being on a journey into madness.   hide

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