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Reading this, Henning Mankell's latest and final in the Kurt Wallander series, was like finding myself in a well-known and beloved landscape: Kurt Wallanderland. Mankell is not a great stylist but he has managed to do something remarkable in his creation of Police Detective Wallander. I love this me Leggi tutto

"History isn't just something that's being us, it's also something that follows us.” If you have been reading or have read all of the Kurt Wallander series by Henning Mankell as I have done, this is an especially sad but really well-done volume that finally ends the series. Mankell had written what h Leggi tutto

I won't rehash the plot, others have done a fine job of that. My problem with the book is that Henning Mankell was astonishingly lazy with his plotting. He seems to have made up the plot as he went along, with no clear idea of where he was going or what the solution would be. There's a stunningly in Leggi tutto

There are already so many excellent reviews of this book, I feel I have little to add, except to agree it was a compelling read with several major surprises, and also very sad. I did find the ending unsatisfying, but I think that was the author's intent. The issues of aging and death Wallander is wr Leggi tutto

Book Review: We all form connections and we break them. We build friendships. Some of us are on teams at work only to get displaced and join a different team. We travel to distant lands and leave such lands and the people in it. We have families and children, this sacred space we rarely leave until d Leggi tutto

‘Behind every person there’s always someone else.’ Saddest book I have read for a while. The last in the Wallender series. Mankell finally leaves the detective in cognitive decline as he begins to experience his late fathers Alzheimer’s. Wallender is now 60. He has diabetes, cholesterol and dementia b Leggi tutto

Definitivamente este libro es mi favorito, no porque sea el último, sino porque engloba muy bien quién es Kurt Wallander, las cosas buenas y las cosas malas que lo comprenden. Es un libro largo y para muchos podría ser lento pero, contrario a lo que dicen, a mí me parece que es un libro que se detie Leggi tutto

Y bueno, terminé el último Wallander.... Para mí es el penúltimo ya que me falta leer “La pirámide” que son relatos. Que decir? Mankell me ha convertido en seguidor de los casos de Kurt y de los policiales en general. En éste, el último, nos encontramos con un Wallander en su ocaso, con diabetes, con l Leggi tutto

Αναλυτικά μπορείτε να διαβάσετε την άποψή μου εδώ. Τα προβλήματα αρχίζουν όταν ο μέλλων πεθερός της κόρης του Βαλάντερ, απόστρατος αξιωματικός του ναυτικού, ανοίγει μια πολύ αινιγματική συζήτηση μαζί του φανέρα ανήσυχος για κάτι που φαίνεται να τον βασανίζει κι ύστερα από λίγες μέρες εξαφανίζεται Leggi tutto