Daniel

"Historical touches mingle with elements of magic realism to convey themes dear to the author's heart." --Los Angeles Times

"An engrossing story, with a real sense of pace and adventure, illuminated by empathy with the bewilderment and longing of a clever, lonely child." --The Independent (London)

"A quiet tragedy." --The Boston Globe

"Mankell's fierce instinct for social criticism is admirable."--The New York Times Book Review

"A writer with the imagination, brains, resources . . . [who] make[s] thoughtful, challenging, exciting, artistic novels."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Mankell is expert at depicting brutal scenes. He's also adept at getting inside exotic heads like Daniel's; this book's greatest strength is imagination. Its second greatest is empathy." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Earnest and heartbreaking. . . . Mankell fully understands Daniel's radically different cultural perspective and indelibly captures the boy's longing to return to his homeland and the tragic consequences of his forced exile." --Publishers Weekly

"A haunting and fascinating story of clashes of culture and race in the nineteenth century as well as a touching, sometimes cruel examination of familial and other human ties." --Booklist