- Detectives, Kurt Wallander (Fictitious character), Fiction, Short stories
The essential read for all fans of Kurt Wallander.When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and bleak.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Henning Mankell
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 397
- Publisher
- Distributed by W.W. Norton, Tusquets, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- Dutch, Swedish, German, French
- ISBN
- 9781407013473
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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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