# After the Fire

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- Book: [After the Fire](https://www.bookquiver.com/henning-mankell/after-the-fire) ([After the Fire.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/henning-mankell/after-the-fire.md))
- Authors: [Henning Mankell](https://www.bookquiver.com/henning-mankell)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Translated by: Marlaine Delargy
- Medium: audio
- Length: 11 h 58 min
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- ISBN: 978-14-7355-267-8
- Published: 2017-10-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 11 h 58 min

## Description

Random House presents the audiobook edition of After the Fire by Henning Mankell, read by Sean Barrett. Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an island. He swims in the sea every day, cutting a hole in the ice if necessary. He lives a quiet life. Until he wakes up one night to find his house on fire. Fredrik escapes just in time, wearing two left-footed wellies, as neighbouring islanders arrive to help douse the flames. All that remains in the morning is a stinking ruin and evidence of arson. The house that has been in his family for generations and all his worldly belongings are gone. He cannot think who would do such a thing, or why. Without a suspect, the police begin to think he started the fire himself. Tackling love, loss and loneliness, After the Fire is Henning Mankell’s compelling last novel.