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Italian Shoes
2006 novel by Henning Mankell
Italian Shoes is a 2006 novel by Swedish writer Henning Mankell.
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The English translation is by Laurie Thompson and in contrast with Mankell's other well-known novels has been written in the first person.[1]
Plot summary
Set around the year 2004, the novel focusses on Fredrik Welin, once a successful orthopaedic surgeon forced to retire early from his professional career.
He has retreated to a tiny, remote island in the Stockholm archipelago which he has inherited from his grandparents and is now the sole inhabitant. The island is normally surrounded for at least half the year by thick sea ice which adds to the sense of solitude.
Fredrik lives a reclusive and somewhat austere lifestyle in a run-down house, enjoying few luxuries.
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Welin's only companions are his aged cat and dog. The postman, Jansson is the one regular visitor to the island. Despite this Welin has never become particularly sociable with Jansson. In fact