Henning Mankell
Author
Language
English
Description
Cold and poverty define Hanna Renstrom's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1905, at nineteen, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life. But none of her hopes--or fears--prepares her for the life she will lead. After two brief marriages, she finds herself a widow twice over, and the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white supremacy rule, where she is isolated within society by her...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, A Division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Henning Mankell's last novel about an aging man whose quiet, solitary life on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden is turned upside down when his house catches fire. Fredrik Welin is a former surgeon who retired in disgrace decades earlier to a tiny island on which he is the only resident. He has a daughter he rarely sees and his mailman Jansson is the closest thing he has to a friend, and to an adversary. He is perfectly content to live out...
4) Daniel
Author
Language
English
Description
Arriving in Cape Town in the 1870s, Hans Bengler adopts a young San orphan he names Daniel and takes him back to Sweden, where Daniel must adjust to his new surroundings while dealing with nightmares of his dead parents calling him home.
5) Depths
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Sent on a mission to take covert depth readings around the Stockholm archipelago, World War I Swedish naval officer Lars Tobiasson-Svartman finds himself attracted to a young widow whose wild nature is in total contrast to his wife's reserved personality.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the 2006 massacre of nineteen people in a Swedish village, Judge Birgitta Roslin, a granddaughter of two of the victims, discovers the nineteenth-century diary of a gang leader that reveals the case's eerie connections to the abuse ofChinese slave workers.
Author
Language
English
Description
When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in Sweden, police find strange tracks in the snow as if someone has been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman, a young police officer recently diagnosed with cancer, decides to investigate the murder of his former colleague but is soon enmeshed in a mystifying case with no witnesses and no apparent motives. Terrified of the disease that could take his life, Lindman...
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Jesper Humlin is a poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales, an exasperated girlfriend, a demanding mother, and a rapidly fading tan. His boy-wonder stockbroker has squandered Humlin's investments, and his editor, who says he must write a crime novel to survive, begins to pitch and promote the nonexistent book despite Humlin's emphatic refusals. Then, when he travels to Gothenburg to give a reading, he finds himself...
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
On the rooftop of a theater in an African port, Nelio, a ten year old boy--"a leader of street kids, rumored to be a healer and a prophet and possessed of a strangely ancient wisdom--"tells his unforgettable story over the course of nine nights.
Author
Series
Joel Gustafson volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 520L
Language
English
Description
Now almost fourteen, Joel becomes a local hero to his small Swedish town when he saves an old man from freezing to death in the woods.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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,...
14) Italian shoes
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Fredrik Welin is a reclusive ex-surgeon living alone on a tiny island in the north of Sweden. His only companions are a pair of aged pets, and the only society callers to his living room are ants that are transforming his table into an enormous anthill. Every morning, the loner goes out to the frozen lake, cuts a hole in the ice, and then plunges himself into the freezing water to remind himself that he is still alive. Four women enter his life: Harriet,...
Author
Series
Wallander volume 9.5
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After nearly thirty years in the same job, Inspector Kurt Wallander is tired, restless, and itching to make a change. He is taken with a certain old farmhouse, perfectly situated in a quiet countryside with a charming, overgrown garden. There he finds the skeletal hand of a corpse in a shallow grave. Wallander's investigation takes him deep into the history of the house and the land, until finally the shocking truth about a long-buried secret is brought...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
In Sweden in 1956, eleven-year-old Joel and his father, a logger who was once a sailor, live alone with their secrets, including Joel's secret society that meets at night and his father's new romantic interest.
17) El chino
Author
Series
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2010.
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...