One night Jose hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery.
He races to the theatre's uppermost gallery, and there beneath him on a spotlit
stage lies the wounded body of Nelio, a street urchin renowned for living on his
wits. Gasping, the wounded boy asks to be taken to the roof to breathe the beau
tiful air fresh off the Indian Ocean.
On that theatre roof, his life ebbing a
way, Nelio begins to tell Jose his extraordinary story...Henning Mankell's Chron
icler of the Winds is a dazzling new venture from the master of crime; a beautif
ully told fable of the African continent.
