03457cam a2200421 4500 239909065 TxAuBib 20140810120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781595588449 1595588442 B0092WVSFS Amazon a6e26c0c-3d95-4b83-a85f-735ce1c3ad18 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1073321 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Mankell, Henning, 1948- The Shadow Girls [Bridges eBook] : A Novel. The New Press, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe PDF eBook, Filesize: 1212kB. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 547kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Literary. HTML:Jesper Humlin is a poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales, an exasperated girlfriend, a demanding mother, and a rapidly fading tan. His boy-wonder stockbroker has squandered Humlin’s investments, and his editor, who says he must write a crime novel to survive, begins to pitch and promote the nonexistent book despite Humlin’s emphatic refusals. Then, when he travels to Gothenburg to give a reading, he finds himself thrust into an entirely different world, where names shift, stories overlap, and histories are both deeply secret and in profound need of retelling.<br /> <br /> Leyla from Iran, Tanya from Russia, and Tea-Bag, who is from Africa but claims to be from Kurdistan (because Kurds might receive preferential treatment as refugees)—these are the shadow girls who become Humlin’s unlikely pupils in impromptu writing workshops. Though he had imagined their stories as fodder for his own book, soon their intertwining lives require him to play a much different role.<br /> <br /> Offering both surprising humor and heartbreaking moments, <i>The Shadow Girls</i> is a triumph that will please longtime fans of Mankell as well as readers new to his work. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-09 14:24:47. Segerberg, Ebba. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=a6e26c0c-3d95-4b83-a85f-735ce1c3ad18 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/A6E/26C/0C/ShadowGirls9781595588449.epub Excerpt (Adobe PDF eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=A6E26C0C-3D95-4B83-A85F-735CE1C3AD18&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe PDF eBook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/A6E/26C/0C/ShadowGirls9781595588449.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=A6E26C0C-3D95-4B83-A85F-735CE1C3AD18&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/A6E/26C/0C/ShadowGirls9781595588449.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=A6E26C0C-3D95-4B83-A85F-735CE1C3AD18&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/A6E/26C/0C/ShadowGirls9781595588449.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=A6E26C0C-3D95-4B83-A85F-735CE1C3AD18&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)