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The shadow girls

Tea-Bag, a young African girl, has fled a refugee camp in Spain for the promise of a new life in Sweden. Tania has made a long and dangerous journey to escape the horrors of humna trafficking. Leyla has come with her family from Iran. All of them are facing challenges in their new home. Meanwhile, celebrated poet Jesper Humlin is looking for inspiration. Harried by his mother and girlfriend, misunderstood by his publisher and tormented by his stockbroker, Jesper needs a new perspective on life. A chance encounter with Tea-Bag leads him into the shadow world of the immigrant experience in Sweden. Initially he sees the girls purely as material for his next work, but soon discovers they have very different ideas.

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  • "Ecrivain reconnu et subventionné, poète hermétique à faible tirage, Jesper Humlin est en crise. Sa petite amie veut un enfant, sa mère l'étouffe et son éditeur Olof Lundin le somme d'abandonner la poésie pour écrire un roman policier. Venu à Göteborg pour une lecture, il rencontre trois jeunes femmes issues de l'immigration et est tenu en haleine par leurs récits."
  • "Jesper Humlin hat es nicht leicht. Zwar ist er ein gefeierter Lyriker, doch sein Verleger besteht darauf, dass er endlich einen Kriminalroman schreibt, der Kurs seiner Wertpapiere ist gefallen, seine Freundin will ein Kind von ihm, und seine Mutter hat eine Agentur für Telefonsex eröffnet. Da lernt er bei einer Lesung Tea-Bag, ein schwarzes Flüchtlingsmädchen, und ihre Freundinnen kennen. Nach und nach erfährt er ihre Geschichten. Ein Roman, der das Gegensätzlichste verbindet - eine Satire auf den modernen Literaturbetrieb und einen Einblick in die illegale Welt der Einwanderer. Ein Buch von wunderbarer Komik und tiefem Ernst - ein neues Genre, in dem Mankell wie in seinen früheren Büchern brilliert."
  • "Een Zweedse dichter helpt een illegaal verblijvende jonge Afrikaanse vrouw met het opschrijven van haar levensverhaal."
  • "Tea-Bag, a young African girl, has fled a refugee camp in Spain for the promise of a new life in Sweden. Tania has made a long and dangerous journey to escape the horrors of humna trafficking. Leyla has come with her family from Iran. All of them are facing challenges in their new home. Meanwhile, celebrated poet Jesper Humlin is looking for inspiration. Harried by his mother and girlfriend, misunderstood by his publisher and tormented by his stockbroker, Jesper needs a new perspective on life. A chance encounter with Tea-Bag leads him into the shadow world of the immigrant experience in Sweden. Initially he sees the girls purely as material for his next work, but soon discovers they have very different ideas."@en
  • "Ordered by his editor to write a crime novel to reignite his stalled career, poet Jesper Humlin reluctantly travels to Gothenburg, where three unlikely pupils of an impromptu writing workshop draw him into their culturally driven, compelling worlds."
  • "El célebre poeta sueco Jesper Humlin vive una existencia regalada y vacua, apenes salpimentada por las trifulcas con su pareja, las envidias de sus colegas y el apremio de los editores. Sin embargo, tal vez Jesper conserve un resto de dignidad al rechazar la propuesta de su editor de que escriba novelas policiacas, que venden cincuenta veces más que la poesía. Y quizás ese vestigio de decencia desencadene también su interés por la historia de Tea-Bag, joven africana que le relata la huida de su aldea y su llegada a Suecia. -- Cover, p. [4]."
  • "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. 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."
  • "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. 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."@en

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  • "Popular literature"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "General"@en
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Talking books"@en
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Spanish language materials"
  • "Roman suédois"
  • "Translations"
  • "Materiales en espanol"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction in Translation"@en
  • "Samhällskritiska romaner"@sv
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Fiction in translation"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Livres numériques"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Swedish fiction"

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  • "Nimeltään Tea-Bag"@fi
  • "Nimeltään Tea-Bag"
  • "Tea-Bag : roman"@sv
  • "Tea-Bag : roman"
  • "Tea-Bag : roman"@da
  • "Tea-Bag"@ca
  • "Tea-Bag"@sv
  • "Tea-Bag"@es
  • "Tea-Bag"
  • "Tea-Bag Roman"
  • "Tea-Bag roman"
  • "Tea-Bag roman"@sv
  • "Shadow girls"
  • "Tea-bag : roman"
  • "Tea-Bag : Roman"
  • "Tea bag : Roman"
  • "The shadow girls"
  • "The shadow girls"@en
  • "The Shadow Girls"
  • "Tea-bag"@sv
  • "Tea-bag"
  • "Tea-bag : Roman"

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