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Comédia infantilHenning Mankell
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Comédia infantil

256 pagesFirst published 199516 editions · 7 languages
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A major event in publishing - Henning Mankell's departure from the crime genre will attract huge interest and this mesmerising fable will broaden his readershipOne night Jose Antonio Maria Vaz hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery. He races to the theatre's uppermost gallery, and there beneath him on a spotlit stage lies the wounded body of Nelio, a street urchin renowned for living on his wits. Gasping, the wounded boy asks to be taken to the roof to breathe the beautiful air fresh off the Indian Ocean. On that theatre roof, his life ebbing away, Nelio begins his…

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Editions

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
Paperbackdtv Verlagsgesellschaft2016—9783423216463
Edition · gerDeutscher Taschenbuch Verlag20142679783423129640
EbookRandom House Publishing Group2008—9781407017402
PaperbackVintage Canada20072569780676979169
EditionVintage2007—9780099455479
PaperbackVintage20072569780307280442
EditionNew Press20062339781595580580
Paperback · freSeuil20032409782020367660
Paperback · spaTusQuets20022729788483102053
PaperbackBuchgemeinschaften2001—9783423215442
Edition · dutDe Geus2001—9789044500189
Hardcover · gerZsolnay20002689783552049819
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