- Mystery, Fiction, Kurt Wallander (Fictitious character), Murder
It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But, unknown to them, they are being watched. Each is killed by a single bullet.It is Midsummer's Eve.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Henning Mankell
- First published
- February 2002
- Pages
- 537
- Publisher
- TusQuets, Nhã Nam, Zsolnay
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- English, German, Swedish, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9781400031511
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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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