In 1991, in Sweden, Henning Mankell published a novel about a police inspector in the town of Ystad, in the southernmost region of the country. Mankell, born in Stockholm in 1948, had already published a half-dozen novels and had a number of plays to his credit as well. For some years he had divided his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he was a theater director (...)
May 06, 2011
Books
Murder, He Wrote
The Troubled ManHenning MankellTranslated by Laurie ThompsonAlfred A. Knopf, $26.95, 384 pp.
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