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02272aam a2200397 4500 001 45A612DCDC0911E8B31FAF2D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20181030010117 008 121103s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 080412695X : : 020 $a 9780804126953 : : 028 $a RHA 4210 $b Random House Audio 035 $a (OCoLC)816026690 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 041 1 $d eng $h swe 100 1 $a Mankell, Henning, $d 1948- 240 $a Minnet av en smutsig ängel $l English. 245 12 $a A treacherous paradise / $c Henning Mankell. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [Westminster, MD] : $b Books on Tape, $c 2013. 300 $a 9 sound discs (11 1/2 hr.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 500 $a Compact discs. 511 $a Read by Rosalyn Landor. 520 $a "Cold and poverty define Hanna Renström's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1905, at nineteen, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life. But none of her hopes--or fears--prepares her for the life she will lead. After two brief marriages, she finds herself a widow twice over, and the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white supremacy rule, where she is isolated within society by her profession and her sex, and, among the bordello's black prostitutes, by her color. As Hanna's story unfurls over the next several years, we watch her in this "treacherous paradise," as she wrestles with a constant, wrenching loneliness and with the racism she's meant to unthinkingly adopt. And as her life becomes increasingly intertwined with the prostitutes, she moves inexorably toward the moment when she will make a decision that defies every expectation society has of her, and, more important, those she has of herself. 541 $d 20180811. 650 $a Brothels $z Mozambique $v Fiction. 650 $a Prostitution $z Mozambique $v Fiction. 650 $a Women, White $z Mozambique $v Fiction. 650 $a Swedes $z Mozambique $v Fiction. 651 $a Mozambique $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. 655 7 $a Audiobooks (CD.) 700 $a Landor, Rosalyn. 941 $a 1 952 $l XIPA157 $d 20181030011921.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=45A612DCDC0911E8B31FAF2D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search