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Quicksand: What It Means to Be a Human Being
Quicksand What It Means to Be a Human Being
Author: Henning Mankell
In January 2014 Hening Mankell was informed that he had cancer.However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction, but about what it means to be human. He writes about love and jealousy, about courage and fear. And about what it is like to live with a potentially fatal illness. — This book is also about why the cave painters 40,000 year...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780525432159
ISBN-10: 0525432159
Publication Date: 1/10/2017
Pages: 320
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
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I thought this would be an autobiography of this distinguished writer, and parts of it are, but the bulk of the book consists of meditations and vignettes on time and the long view of history in the light of nuclear waste that (nearly impossibly) needs to be kept safe and secure for tens of thousands of years. Very philosophical and profound.


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