![]() ![]() Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Rumors of an underground army of revolutionaries wearing leopard skins warn him that the truce is in danger of rupturing.Īlternating between Hans's years in Africa and those in Sweden, The Eye of the Leopard is a bravura achievement and a study in contrastsblack and white, poor and wealthy, Africa and Europeboth sinister and elegiac. The Eye of the Leopard: A Novel is written by Henning Mankell and published by The New Press (ORIM). But he never fully comes to understand his place as a mzungu, a wealthy white man among native blacks, and the fragile truce between them. Africa is a terrible shock, yet he stays and makes it his home. He is also fleeing the traumas of his motherless childhood: his father's alcoholism, his best friend's terrible accident, Janice's death, his fear of an ordinary and stifled fate. ![]() Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill the missionary dream of his friend Janice. His childhood was unsettled: an alcoholic father, and a mother disappeared, only alive in old photographs. Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, The Eye of the Leopard draws on bestselling author Henning Mankell's deep understanding of the two worlds he has inhabited for more than twenty years. Hans Olofson is the son of a Swedish lumberjack. ![]()
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