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Title: Sidetracked by Henning Mankell ISBN: 1-4000-3156-7 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Die falsche Fÿrhte
Comment: Like several other readers I read the German version of this novel because a woman recommended it to my wife as giving beautiful descriptions of Swedish landscape. We know the highways around Ystad, Malmö and Helsingborg, but the book did not give me much flavor of Swedish geography. I found the beginning painfully slow, living only in Wallander's mind with too much repetition of his thoughts. At some point the story became gripping but by page 273 I hadn't understood the connnections between the murdered girl and the murdered men (good point for the book, or negative point for the reader..??). The ending was pretty weak though. Also, how was it with Baiba on the vacation near Skagen? Will I read another Wallander mystery? Not clear.
Update. The appeal of the interest in sociology of Commisar Wallender won me over. Am reading Brannvegg in Norwegian transl., fantastic from the start, maybe Inspector Wallender/Mankell at his best! Comes out in English...as 'Firewall'. Was near Ystad (Sandhammaren) while reading it this month, good place to read Mankell!.
Rating: 5
Summary: You can't get sidetracked from this book!
Comment: After reading a German translation of the original Swedish version of "Sidetracked" by Henning Mankell, I was enthralled by the complexity of the plot and of the main character, Kurt Wallander. Reading this book(my first by Mankell), my apppetite to continue reading his books grew steadily. I had never been a fan of niether murder mysteries nor detective novels, but this book really changed my mind. I highly recommend this to any reader.
Rating: 4
Summary: Worthwhile Procedural
Comment: This is a strange, interesting story. Characteristically for Mankell, it opens arrestingly. The short prologue gives us a snapshot of Pedro Santana, a sugar plantation worker in the Dominican Republic. Years ago he got married to "the most beautiful girl he had ever seen" who then, for eight long years, failed to conceive a child. Now having at last done so, she is dying and leaves him with nothing but the baby daughter, Dolores, who, he now vows, will have a different, happier life.
The scene shifts to southern Sweden sixteen years later, where, as the 1994 World Cup gets under way, a brown-skinned young woman appears in a field of rape, apparently terrified, douses herself with petrol and sets herself alight. Chief Inspector Kurt Wallender is a witness to her death and the memory haunts him as he embarks on the hunt for a serial killer who kills his victims with an axe and scalps them.
Are these killings in any way related to the burning girl? Well, we find out, in a complex story about fathers and their children in a violent and dangerous world set against the backdrop of the kind of perfect summer in which, Wallander's outraged sentiments protest, monsters do not belong.
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Title: Firewall by HENNING MANKELL ISBN: 1400031532 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: One Step Behind by Henning Mankell ISBN: 1400031516 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The White Lioness by Henning Mankell ISBN: 1400031559 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell ISBN: 1400031575 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Dogs of Riga: A Kurt Wallendar Mystery by Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson ISBN: 1565847873 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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