Henning Mankell
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A stunning and poignant autobiographical look at the myriad experiences that shape a meaningful life, by the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries.
“Surely one of the most moving and intriguing farewell notes ever written.... Intensely beautiful in its spirit.” —Alexander McCall Smith, New Statesman
In January 2014, Henning Mankell received a diagnosis of lung cancer....
“Surely one of the most moving and intriguing farewell notes ever written.... Intensely beautiful in its spirit.” —Alexander McCall Smith, New Statesman
In January 2014, Henning Mankell received a diagnosis of lung cancer....
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From the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander Mysteries: An “uplifting . . . grittily realistic” fable about war-torn Africa and a mystical orphan boy (The New York Times).
A single gunshot cracks the silence of a hot African night. On the rooftop of a local theater company, a ten-year-old boy slowly dies of bullet wounds. He is Nelio, a leader of street kids, rumored to be a healer...
A single gunshot cracks the silence of a hot African night. On the rooftop of a local theater company, a ten-year-old boy slowly dies of bullet wounds. He is Nelio, a leader of street kids, rumored to be a healer...
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Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 9
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The story of the Swedish detective’s beginnings, told in five gripping short mysteries: “An indispensable chapter to the saga” (Booklist Online).
Here are the stories that trace, chronologically, Kurt Wallander’s growth from a rookie cop into a young father and then a middle-aged divorcé, illuminating how he became a first-rate detective and highlighting new facets of the character who...
Here are the stories that trace, chronologically, Kurt Wallander’s growth from a rookie cop into a young father and then a middle-aged divorcé, illuminating how he became a first-rate detective and highlighting new facets of the character who...
25) La ira del fuego
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«Éste es un relato con una parte de verdad y otra de fantasía. Todo lo que explico ha ocurrido, pero no exactamente de la manera en que lo escribo. […] Este relato se lo he leído en voz alta a Sofia. Nos hemos sentado unas cuantas veces al lado del fuego en las cálidas noches africanas. Ella escuchaba y ahora te lo cuento también a ti que tienes el libro entre las manos…»Henning MankellAlgo va mal, muy mal. De pronto, Armando vuelve cada...
26) Jugar con fuego
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Sofia estaba sentada junto al fuego. Ahora las llamas la amenazaban. No eran cálidas y agradables, y ella sabía por qué. En la oscuridad, tumbada sobre una manta, se encontraba Rosa, su hermana mayor, que estaba enferma. De todos los hermanos, Rosa era a quien ella quería más. Rosa tenía diecisiete años, tres más que Sofia. con ella podía hablar de todo y reían a menudo. Rosa podía contar cosas que a Sofia todavía no le habían pasado....
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Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 9
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At last, a key addition to the Kurt Wallander mystery series: the book of short mysteries that takes us back to the beginning. Here we meet Wallander the twenty-one-year-old patrolman on his first criminal investigation, Wallander the young father facing an unexpected danger on Christmas Eve, Wallander on the brink of middle age solving a case of poisoning, the newly separated Wallander investigating the murder of a local photographer, and Wallander...
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Henning Mankell, internationally famous creator of the bestselling Kurt Wallander mysteries, here offers a nonfiction fable about a heartrending tradition spawned by a major health crisis: the invaluable Memory Book Project, which gives those dying of AIDS an opportunity to record their lives in words and pictures for the children they leave behind.In Uganda, Mankell finds village after village populated only by children and the elderly-those left...
30) The rock blaster
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"The year is 1911. The young rock blaster Oskar Johansson has been killed in an accident. Or so it says in the local newspaper. In spite of serious injuries, however, Oskar survives. Decades later, Oskar looks back and reflects on his working life as an invalid, his marriage, his dreams, and his hopes. Oskar's life is woven together out of fragments of voices, images, and episodes that, taken together, provide a sharp and precise picture of life in...
31) Wallander
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Three new crime dramas based on the best selling books by Henning Mankell - Sidetracked, Firewall, and One Step Behind follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.
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Thrilling mystery tales about the brooding and disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander, set in the beautiful landscape of southern Sweden. In Faceless killers, an elderly couple are attacked at an isolated farmhouse and the town witnesses an outbreak of racist violence. In The man who smiled, Wallander is contacted by an old acquaintance who is suspicious about his father's death. In The fifth woman, an elderly birdwatcher falls to his death in a meticulously...
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Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 9
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"The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Kurt Wallander's beginnings. The mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander. Revealing a side of Wallander that we have never seen, the long stories collected in The Pyramid are vintage Mankell. Here, we see Wallander on his homicide first case as a twenty-one-year-old patrolman, as a young father facing unexpected danger...
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In The White Lioness, Wallander is drawn into the case of a missing Swedish national while attending a police conference in South Africa. The second film sees Wallander back in Sweden, where a woman's body is discovered half buried in the forest swamps. And in The Troubled Man, Wallander is in a race against time as he embarks on his final case - the disappearance of his daughter's father-in-law.
37) Włoskie buty
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Na niewielkiej bałtyckiej wyspie od dwunastu lat mieszka samotnie Frederick Welin, sześćdziesięciosześcioletni emerytowany lekarz. Rytm jego życia wyznaczają codzienne poranne kąpiele w wykuwanym codziennie przeręblu. Jedynymi towarzyszami jego samotnej egzystencji są stary pies i równie wiekowy kot oraz pojawiający się od czasu do czasu hipochondryczny listonosz. Tak trwa to niezmącone niczym życie aż do momentu, w którym na otaczającym...
39) Głębia
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Pazdziernik 1914 roku. Pancernik ,,Svea" dociera do Archipelagu Sztokholmskiego. Na pokladzie znajduje sie Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, inzynier marynarki wojennej, który podjal sie pomiaru glebokosci wód morskich i wyznaczenia kanalu zeglugowego dla okretów wojennych. Mezczyzna juz od dziecinstwa jest zafascynowany pomiarami i maniakalnie pragnie oraz pozada precyzyjnej wiedzy na temat glebokosci. To znalazlo odbicie w jego monotonnym zyciu prywatnym,...