A collection of micro-essays from the Swedish author of the crime novels featuring Inspector Kurt Wallander, who died in 2015. They cover topics such as his cancer diagnosis, art, jealousy, Ices Ages past and present, and the future of the planet. Now in paperback. 'An extraordinarily moving book...' Alexander McCall Smith, }New Statesman In January 2014 Henning Mankell was informed that he had cancer. However, Quicksand is not a book about death, but about what it means to be human. It is a book about how humanity has lived and continues to live, and about how Henning lived his own life.
