Read by Sean Barrett

In 1875 Hans Bengler, a young entomologist, leaves Sweden for the expedition
of a lifetime to the Kalahari Desert where he hopes to find a previously
undiscovered insect to name after himself and advance his career. Instead,
after his long and arduous journey through the sands, he finds a small boy,
whose tribe has been decimated by European raiders.

Accustomed to collecting specimens, Bengler decides to adopt the boy and
names him Daniel. He takes the traumatised child home with him to Sweden and
plans to .civilise. him. But Daniel cannot slip into an alien culture, and a
new life in the cold and snow, so easily. He yearns desperately for the desert
and his real family, who visit him in his dreams. His only consolation comes
from his friendship with a vulnerable young girl called Sanna, who is also an
outsider in her community. But even this bond is destined to be violently
broken, as Daniel.s isolation and increasing desperation lead to a chilling
tragedy.

As well as an acute psychological depiction of the life of a child thrown
into extraordinary circumstances, in Daniel the acclaimed writer Henning
Mankell also gives us a compelling and disturbing story of the dangerous
gaps and misunderstandings that can exist between individuals and cultures.

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