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Henning Mankell's last novel about an ageing man whose calm, solitary life by using an isolated island off of the coastline of Sweden is turned ugly when his house catches fireplace. Fredrik Welin is a ex - plastic surgeon who retired in disgrace years earlier to a tiny island on which he is the only real citizen. He has a little princess he rarely sees, and his mailman, Jansson, is the closest thing he has to a friend also to an adversary. He is flawlessly content to live out his days in calm solitude. One autumn evening, he is startled awake by a blinding light - and then find that his house is burning. With the help of Jansson, he escapes the flames just in time wearing two kept boots. Dawn reveals that everything he possesses is now a smoldering pile of ash, and his house is destroyed - forcing him to move into an abandoned trailer on his island. A local journalist, Lisa Modin, who would like to write a story about the fireplace, comes into his life. In doing this, she awakens in him something that he thought was long inactive. Soon after, his daughter comes to the island with unexpected information of her own. On the other hand, the police suspect Fredrik of arson because he had a sizable insurance promise on his house. When Fredrik is from the archipelago, another house rises in flames, and the community realizes they have got an arsonist in their midst. After the Hearth can be an intimate portrait of your elderly recluse who is forced to open himself up to world he'd left out.
