His Kurt Wallander mysteries are global bestsellers and have been adapted into the PBS Masterpiece Mystery! series Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh. Good ReadingĪbout the Author Henning Mankell is an internationally bestselling author who has received numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association's Macallan Gold Dagger and the German Tolerance Prize. The Lancet Mankell captures the human dignity of everyone he meets in this small yet moving book. It is about nurturing new life in the face of death. Above all, this book is about dignity, hope, and emotional healing. Ritten with passion.hows what the epidemic feels like at the frontline of villages in Africa, and the most precious inheritance parents can leave their children-their memories, identities, and links with the past and the future. ![]() A portion of the book's proceeds will be donated to AIDS charities in Africa. Featuring a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the book includes an appendix listing AIDS organizations and resources. Excerpts from Ugandan memory books appear throughout I Die, but My Memory Lives On and, together with Mankell's narrative, they tell the stories of individual lives while sounding a powerful warning about the threat of AIDS. These slim, intensely personal volumes can contain words, pictures, a pressed butterfly, or even grains of sand as ways to represent the lives lost to this devastating plague. ![]() In Uganda, Mankell finds village after village populated only by children and the elderly-those left behind after AIDS swept away an entire generation. Excerpts from Ugandan memory books, along with Mankell's narrative, tell stories of individual lives while sounding a powerful warning about the threat of AIDS.īook Synopsis "A deeply moving account of Henning Mankell's personal responses to AIDS and its victims, both parents and children left behind far too soon." -Archbishop Desmond Tutu The internationally famous creator of the bestselling Kurt Wallander mysteries tells the true story of a heartrending tradition spawned by a major health crisis: the invaluable Memory Book Project, which gives those dying of AIDS an opportunity to record their lives in words and pictures for the children they leave behind. About the Book The invaluable Memory Book Project gives those dying of AIDS in Africa an opportunity to record their lives in words and pictures for the children they leave behind.
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