Henning Mankell: 117 books

The much-anticipated return of Henning Mankell’s brilliant, brooding detective, Kurt Wallander. On a winter day in 2008, Håkan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm. The investigation into his disappearance falls under the...

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....

From the dean of Scandinavian noir, Henning Mankell, the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series, an incredible stand-alone masterpiece: a bone-chilling mystery that spans two centuries and four continents. In the far north of Sweden a small, quiet village...

From the #1 international-bestselling master of Scandinavian noir: a “marvelously told mystery” of murder in Sweden and corruption in Africa (Austin American-Statesman).   In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are found with their throats slit. The local police do little...

Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world. The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert...

"Questa storia fu scritta diversi anni fa. Cronologicamente si colloca prima di L'uomo inquieto, l'ultimo della serie. Non esistono altre storie di cui Kurt Wallander sia il protagonista" HENNING MANKELL. Kurt Wallander potrebbe finalmente realizzare uno dei suoi vecchi sogni e trasferirsi...

A small-town murder leads to international intrigue in this “first-class thriller” from the New York Times–bestselling master of Scandinavian crime (The New York Times Book Review). Inspector Kurt Wallander returns in the second of Henning Mankell’s award-winning, internationally-bestselling...

The master of Scandinavian crime fiction spins a dark tale of passion and deceit set during World War I: “A memorable and shocking psychological study” (Publishers Weekly). October, 1914. Swedish naval officer Lars Tobiasson-Svartman is charged with a secret mission to take depth readings...

From the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander novels: The “haunting and fascinating” tale of a young boy’s harrowing odyssey from Africa to Sweden (Booklist). In the 1870s, Hans Bengler arrives in Cape Town from Småland, Sweden, driven by a singular desire: to discover an insect...

Arenas movedizas es, en cierta manera, un libro de memorias, pero muy peculiar. No hay sucesión temporal y el arranque es la enfermedad actual del autor y lo que su diagnóstico desencadenó en él: recuerdos distanciados en el tiempo y no necesariamente consecutivos, que Mankell relaciona de un...

Passie wordt een handelswaar Juni 1904. Hanna Lundmark staat aan de reling van het stoomschip Lovisa en kijkt toe hoe de overleden stuurman – haar echtgenoot – zijn zeemansgraf tegemoet gaat. Op dat moment herinnert ze zich haar vaders laatste woorden: Jij, mijn dochter, bent een engel, een armoedige...

Nel periodo più difficile dopo la diagnosi della malattia, Henning Mankell trova la forza di reagire. Partendo dalla propria esperienza, il padre del commissario Wallander riflette sulle importanti questioni politiche del futuro e spiega quanto la letteratura, l’arte e la musica siano importanti...

Sulla riva del fiume Umbeluzi, al confine tra la terra e l’acqua, un vecchio africano dall’incontenibile sorriso che brilla nell’oscurità dei tropici siede davanti al fuoco e, nel corso di una lunga notte, racconta. Racconta della sua grande famiglia e di Samima, l’antenata da cui tutti discendono;...

«È chiaro che amo tutti i libri che scrivo, ma questo romanzo ha un posto speciale nel mio cuore» Henning Mankell Dal tetto di un teatro in un porto africano un uomo contempla la città. Ai suoi piedi, sdraiato su un materasso sporco, c’è Nelio, bambino di strada e profeta. Ha solo dieci anni,...