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A fast paced international thriller - sure to delight fans starved of WallanderWhen archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide.
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Grave, classical in form, contemporary and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Henning Mankell
- First published
- October 16, 2007
- Pages
- 346
- Publisher
- Dt. Taschenbuch-Verl., Knopf Canada, De Geus
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- tur, Spanish, English, German
- ISBN
- 9783423210256
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“The catastrophe happened in the autumn.”
Henning Mankell was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of a judge. He grew up in the towns of Sveg and Borås. His grandfather, also called Henning Mankell (1868–1930), was a well-known composer. At the age of 20, Mankell was the assistant director at the Riks Theater in Stockholm, and he was also writing. In the 1970s he moved to Norway, where he lived with a woman who was a member of the Maoist Communist Labour Party, although he never officially joined the Party. He moved to Africa and lived in several African countries, and in 1985 he founded the Avenida Theater in Maputo, Mozambique, where he continues to spend about half of every year. In 1997 he began his most well-known series of nove
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