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03600aam a22004334i 4500 001 FF1701C6DE1411E682D2D0ADDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170119010033 008 160616t20162016nyu 000 0aeng d 010 $a bd16336203 020 $a 0525432159 (paperback) 020 $a 9780525432159 (paperback) 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d BDX $d YDXCP $d SFR $d SKYRV $e rda $d SILO 050 $a CT 082 $a 920 100 1 $a Mankell, Henning, $d 1948-2015, $e author. 240 10 $a Kvicksand. $l English 245 10 $a Quicksand : $b what it means to be a human being / $c Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson with Marlaine Delargy. 246 30 $a What it means to be a human being 250 $a Vintage Books Original edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, $c 2016. 300 $a 303 pages ; $c 20 cm 500 $a "Originally published in Sweden as Kvicksand by Leopard foÌrlag, Stockholm, in 2014"-- Title-page verso. 500 $a "English translation copyright © 2016 by Laurie Thompson"-- Title page verso. 505 0 $a Part I: The crooked finger -- The car accident -- People reluctantly on their way into the shadows -- The great discovery -- Quicksand -- the future is hidden underground -- the bubble in the glass -- Last will and testament -- The man in the window -- Hagar Qim -- The lion man -- Ice -- Turning time in a different direction -- A journey into the nether regions -- The young medical student -- A magician and an imposter -- A dream about a muddy trench in Flanders -- The caves -- The floating rubbish dump -- Signs -- The raft of death -- All this forgotten love -- Timbuktu -- A different archive -- The courage to be afraid -- Paris -- The hippos -- A cathedral and a cloud of dust -- Part II: The road to Salamanca -- Shadows -- Luminous teeth -- Photographs -- The way out -- Paris in flames, 1348 -- How long is eternity? -- Room number 1 -- The road to Salamanca, part 1 -- the man who dismounted from his horse -- While the child plays -- Elena -- the awakening according to Plato -- Winter night -- Relief -- Getting lost -- The road to Salamanca, part 2 -- Part III: The puppet on a string -- The earth floor -- Moving silently from darkness to darkness -- Mantova and Buenos Aires -- The stupid bird -- Who will be there in the end to listen? -- Salt water -- The buffalo with eight legs -- The secret of cave painters revealed -- The happiness brought by a rickety lorry in the spring -- The war invalid in Budapest -- A visit when something both begins and ends -- The woman with the sack of cement -- A winter in Heraklion -- Catastrophe on a German motorway -- Jealousy and shame -- The twenty-eighth day -- Meeting in a amphitheatre -- A thief and a policeman -- Youth -- The dead body on the bench for the accused -- A violent north-westerly storm -- A fictitious meeting in a park in Vienna, 1913 -- The puppet on a string -- Never being robbed of one's happiness. 600 10 $a Mankell, Henning, $d 1948-2015, $e author. 650 0 $a Authors, Swedish $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Self-actualization (Psychology) 650 0 $a Quality of life. 650 0 $a Well-being. 650 0 $a Life. 650 0 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Thompson, Laurie, $e translator. 700 1 $a Delargy, Marlaine, $e translator. 941 $a 2 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722053839.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20170119010236.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FF1701C6DE1411E682D2D0ADDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search