Henning Mankell
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the hot African night a single gunshot cracks the silence. José Antonio traces the sound to the stage of the local theatre company, where he finds Nelio, the young prophetical leader of the city's street kids, crumpled in blood. Nelio refuses to be taken to the hospital but instead tells Jose his life's story: how bandits raided his village, his daring escape, and his struggle to survive on the streets. José is irrevocably changed. He becomes...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Description
315 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Arriving in newly independent Zambia in the hopes of fulfilling a friend's missionary dream, Hans Olofson endeavors to make Africa his home while struggling with such past demons as his father's alcoholism and a friend's accident.
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mystery volume 10
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Description
392 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mystery volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
This collection of five stories traces the growth of Swedish Inspector Kurt Wallander into a first-rate detective, from rookie cop to young father to middle-aged divorce. In "Wallander's First Case," the twenty-one-year-old patrolman's first homicide case involves his next-door neighbor, seemingly dead by his own hand. Wallander is a young father confronting an unexpected threat on Christmas Eve in "The Man with the Mask." In "The Man on the Beach,"...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Description
303 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In January 2014, Henning Mankell received a diagnosis of lung cancer. Quicksand is a response to this shattering news--but it is not a memoir of destruction. Instead, it is a testament to a life fully lived, a tribute to the extraordinary but fleeting human journey that delivers both boundless opportunity and crucial responsibility. In a series of intimate vignettes, Mankell ranges over rich and varied reflections: of growing up in a small Swedish...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
199 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of Joel, now nearly twelve and living with his father in a small town in 1957 Sweden, as he is run over by a bus and survives without a scratch, then sets out to do a good deed in gratitude for this miracle.
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mystery volume 7
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Description
604 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Deutsch
14) El chino
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
615 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Español
Description
Una helada mañana de enero de 2006, un fótografo hace un descubrimiento aterrador: en el pueblecito sueco de Hesjövallen, aparecen brutalmente asesinadas diecinueve personas. La policia sospecha que es obra de un perturbado; pero la jueza Birgitta Roslin, que se interesa por el caso en cuanto sabe que entre las víctimas figura la familia adoptiva de su madre, sostiene otra teoría. Una cinta de seda roja encontrada en la nieve le pone en la pista...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mystery volume 6
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Description
563 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Deutsch
16) The rock blaster
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Description
xiii, 176 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mystery volume 5
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Description
506 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Deutsch
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Description
194 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the late 1950s, fifteen-year-old Joel is anxious to leave his remote hometown in northern Sweden and sail to far-off places with his father, a former sailor, but the arrival of a letter giving news about his long-absent, nearly forgotten, mother, sends Joel and his father on a journey to Stockholm that will change their lives forever.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 268 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In An Event in autumn, Wallander finds the remains of a young woman buried at the back of his garden. When another woman's body washes up on the shore, Wallander searches for the connection. In The Dogs of Riga, the corpses of two Latvian men, covered in mafia tattoos, are discovered in Ystad harbor. When Wallander travels to Riga in search of the killers, he becomes entangled in a web of corruption. And in Before the frost, a childhood friend of...
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Returns with Wallander in the next set of thrilling tales set in the beautiful landscape of southern Sweden. These stories follow Kurt Wallander, a sensitive but brilliant detective, a man who takes each murder case he works on personally and will stop at nothing in his search for the truth, even at the expense of his health and his family life. Beautifully filmed, Wallander is a compelling series featuring an extremely likeable and entirely believable...