Italian Shoes - Henning Mankell

Mankell is a Swedish writer who mostly wrote detective fiction.  While this work incorporates some elements of mystery and detective fiction - murders, crimes - its main focus is brilliantly exploring the complex and contradictory nature of humans, especially those a bit outside the norm.  Or in this case, perhaps simply older?  Lovely evocation of the Swedish Island archipelago and how much the modern word has changed in a couple of generations.