Book Club Meeting: Daniel (public event)

We liked our last Mankell selection so much we've decided to read another one!  Join the Social Wave Book Club as we discuss Daniel, a historical novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell.

In the 1870s, Hans Bengler arrives in Cape Town from Sweden, driven by the desire to discover an insect no one has seen before and name it after himself. While there, he impulsively adopts a young orphan he names Daniel.  When Daniel is brought by Bengler to Sweden, he is told to call Bengler "Father," taught to knock on doors and bow, and struggles to understand this strange new land. But Daniel is haunted by visions of his murdered parents calling him home to Africa. Knowing that the only way home is by sea, he decides he must learn to walk on water if he is ever to reclaim his true place in the world.