Before the Frost - Brossura

Mankell, Henning

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0676977634 ISBN 13: 9780676977639

Casa editrice: Vintage Canada, 2006

Riassunto

Sweden’s bestselling and award-winning author Henning Mankell joins Vintage Canada with the first Kurt and Linda Wallander Mystery.

Linda Wallander is bored. Having just graduated from the police academy, she is waiting to start work at the Ystad police station and move into her own apartment. In the meantime, she is living with her father, and like fathers and daughters everywhere, they are driving each other crazy. Nor will they be able to escape each other when she moves out. Her father is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a veteran of the Ystad police force, whom she will have to work alongside. Linda’s boredom doesn’t last long. Soon she is embroiled in the case of her childhood friend Anna, who has inexplicably disappeared. A few rookie mistakes result in life-threatening scenarios. And as the case her father is working on dovetails with her own, something far more calculated and dangerous than either could have imagined begins to emerge.

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Recensione

“An arresting story by an arresting writer ... [Mankell] understands and probes the underside of everyday living – in an elegant and artful way.... He is able to look loneliness square in the eye. The result is writing that walks a line between ephemeral and everlasting.”
–The Washington Post

“Powerful.... Thoroughly engaging.... Amazingly human characters.... It’s a testament to Mankell’s skill with plot that the story gets more and more urgent as he transforms a series of small mysteries into a much larger thriller.... Mankell [is] a master storyteller.”
–San Francisco Chronicle

“I salivate with anticipation at the prospect of more from the pen of Mankell, for he is one of the finest
of his genre – a Scandinavian Ian Rankin with a passion for exploring the dark side of human nature.... Mankell builds the tension with care and, as ever, his characters are cleverly rounded....
A masterpiece of atmospheric creation.”
–Glasgow Herald

“Few of this genre’s writers – few of any genre’s writers – have been able to balance the ordinary and the grotesque with such literary dash and page-turning brio.... Mankell’s atmospherics ... give you metaphysical goose bumps.”
–Boston Herald

L'autore

Internationally acclaimed author Henning Mankell has written nine Kurt Wallander mysteries. The books have been published in thirty-three countries and consistently top the bestsellers lists in Europe, receiving major literary prizes (including the UK’s Golden Dagger for Sidetracked) and generating numerous international film and television adaptations. He has also published many other novels for children, teens and adults. In addition, he is one of Sweden’s most popular dramatists. Born in Sweden, he now divides his time between Sweden and Mozambique.

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• Editore: Vintage Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0676977634
• ISBN 13: 9780676977639
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384