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by: Henning Mankell, Peter Robinson, Ian Rankin, Ben Elton, Christopher Brookmyer, Mark Billingham, Stuart McBride, Karin Fossum, Stephen Booth  EAN: 9781843430483 Edition: Airport / Export Ed Format: Import ISBN: 1843430487 Label: Harvill Secker Manufacturer: Harvill Secker Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: April 05, 2007 Publisher: Harvill Secker Studio: Harvill Secker Related Items:
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 Rating: - Scarlet Hans OHara OlofsonI thought this was a very readable book rather exciting at the end wondering how the hero would end up. Would there be a happy ending? Drenched in Swedish gloom the hero plods along totally disenfranchised from love. He uses the noseless woman, his father and his childhood buddy and then dumps them like dead fish feeling a bit of guilt but abandoning them nevertheless with few kind words and no yearning about how they are faring. In Africa he tries to be friends with Peter, Joyce laFuma, and ... Read More Rating:  - Eye of the Leopard is BrilliantEye of the Leopard is the best of the many Mankell novels I've read. I have the feeling this is a book Mankell wrote from the heart - not for money, not because his reading audience constantly clamors for another Wallender mystery, but because (like most novelists) he is working hard to understand himself, and his love for two countries as seemingly opposite as Sweden and Africa. His exploration of racism is brilliant. His ability to show the main character's process of individuation is masterfully ... Read More Rating:  - Boring and frustrating for meThis is no police procedural with rational thought (in case you were hoping for that) and none of the characters are likable. The whole thing (up to the point I gave up) makes me never want to set foot in Central Africa nor meet any Swedish or Africans. Depressing. Frustrating jumps from depressing Sweden to depressing Africa. Like an endless Swedish winter with the DTs only sweating it out. I suppose it is well done but not an enjoyable ride. Rating:  - Mankell's re-use of materialI finished reading Henning Mankell's The Eye of the Leopard a while ago, but realized I had not posted my review. It is a much more assessable book than his previous Kennedy's Brain or the very dark depressing, Depths. It is, like Kennedy's Brain, a pointed political novel. And like the previous book the "villains" in Africa, are an amorphous, hard to pin-down, but serious cultural/political threat to native stressed Africans. In Kennedy's Brain it was the drug companies and their every unethical abuse ... Read More Rating: - African SojournBefore we go any further, this is not a Kurt Wallander mystery. It was written many years ago, and is just appearing here in the US. The novel takes place in the author's native Sweden and in Africa, between which countries he divides his time. It is the story of someone who drifts through life, ending up inheriting by chance an egg farm with 200 native employees and trying to cope with the continent's mystique, superstitions and racial conflicts. The chapters alternate between past and present, ... Read More 
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