Henning Mankell, author of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander Mysteries and the critically acclaimed Chronicler of the Winds, once again proves himself a master of the novel with this arresting, disquieting story of obsession. BUY NOW FROM ...
ehines: For an American like I am, Sweden is an almost mythical land--a sort of soft-porn socialist paradise. Both these books let you in on a very different side of Sweden. More real, but not offputting. 00 Because of the CatsbyNicolas Freeling(ehines) ...
Mark Timlin
The last time I met Henning Mankell was in Copenhagen, on a cold December’s evening in the winter of 2014. We met in the restaurant of a hotel on the harbour. In the seven years that we had known each other, we made 12 television films from his Wallander books and talked together r...
This is an English translation of the first of Henning Mankell's popular series about Detective Kurt Wallander, a Swedish police investigator. Called to the country to investigate the senseless and savage attack on an elderly farm couple, Wallander faces a puzzle that might never be solved.The ...
To counteract this fear, which is an acknowledgement of an inevitable fate, Henning Mankell's hero Lars Tobiasson- Svartman develops his boyhood preoccupation with measuring distances. This "personal means of reining in the movements of time and space" serves him well. Lars becomes a naval ...
Here, Wallander is still under 50 and is emerging from a breakdown brought about by his first killing of a man. His old father is not only alive and reasonably alert, he has recently re-married, and is still painting kitsch autumnal landscapes.Binding, Paul...
An examination of Wallander's creator Mankell and his work demonstrates how the keen social conscience that illuminates Mankell's books chimes with his own commitment to make disadvantaged people's lives better (as is evidenced by his theatre work in Africa), plus the cool and unsparing ...
Random House, Inc. Academic Resources | One Step Behind by Henning MankellOn Midsummer's Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in eighteenth-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander's most trusted colleagues—someone whose help he hoped to rely ...
NEVER MIND about the euro: it's their policemen we have to worryabout. From Riga to Rome, the...Jakeman, Jane