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The Pyramid is a collection of 5 short stories plus an additional prologue. It tells about the time between 1969-1989, from the time when Wallander was a police at Malmö to that he meets his father at a Egyptian police station in Cairo "The Pyramid", es una recopilación de cinco relatos cortos además de un prólogo adicional. Nos relata acerca del período entre 1969 y 1989, desde los tiempos en que Wallander era policía en Malmö al momento en que conoce a su padre en una comisaría de policía en El Cairo.

When Louise Cantor finds her 28-year-old son dead in his apartment, everything indicates it was a suicide. Louise, however, refuses to accept this. She and her ex-husband set out to find what happened, and soon discover a dark underworld where suddenly their own lives are at stake.

First in the Kurt Wallander series. It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didn't present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman's last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they have-and in the process, the match that could inflame Sweden's already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments. Unlike the situation with his ex-wife, his estranged daughter, or the beautiful but married young prosecuter who has peaked his interest, in this case, Wallander finds a problem he can handle. He quickly becomes obsessed with solving the crime before the already tense situation explodes, but soon comes to realize that it will require all his reserves of energy and dedication to solve.

L'aventura vital d'aquest noi, en Joel, és un relat que emociona i destil·la sensibilitat de manera creixent. El misteri d'una mare absent, l'anhel de fugir mar enllà, la peculiar relació amb el seu pare... són alguns dels fils conductors d'aquesta història sobre el pas de l'adolescència al món adult. Com diu el Die Zeit, "es crea un clima de forta tensió narrativa, una obra mestra feta de frases breus". El viatge d'en Joel inclou les novel·les: El gos que corria cap a un estel Les ombres creixen al capvespre El noi que dormia a la neu Viatge a la fi del món

Hans Olofson is the son of a Swedish lumberjack. His childhood was unsettled: an alcoholic father, and a mother disappeared, only alive in old photographs. His adolescence was no easier as he lost both his best friend and his lover tragically. Alone and adrift, as a young man his only desire is to fulfil his lover's dream and visit the grave of a legendary missionary who survived alone in the remote hills of Northern Zambia. On reaching Africa, Olofson is struck by its beauty and mystery. After fulfilling his initial quest, an opportunity of employment in the region tempts him to stay. Time passes quickly. Though dismayed by the attitude of the white population to their adopted country, which is compounded by their vulnerability to alcohol and malaria, he is interested enough to take up sole responsibility for the farm he manages.For almost two decades Hans Olofson battles with a hostile environment and a placid, but resistant workforce. Set in the 1970s and 1980s, "The Eye of the Leopard" explores the relationship between the white farmers and their native workers. Through Olofson's descent into near mental collapse it becomes clear that many years spent in a foreign land do not necessarily breed an understanding of its people: a handful of generations of white settlers cannot change a continent underpinned by myth and superstition. "The Eye of the Leopard" is a first-rate and original psychological thriller delving deep into the mind of a man lost in an unknown world.

Automne 1914. La Suède, malgré sa neutralité, craint d'être entraînée dans la guerre, car les flottes allemande et russe s'affrontent au large de ses côtes. Le capitaine Lars Tobiasson-Svartman reçoit la mission de sonder les fonds de la mer Baltique et de chercher une route maritime secrète à travers l'archipel d'Östergöland. L'homme est hanté par l'idée de contrôle qu'il exerce en mesurant tout ce qui l'entoure, les masses, le temps, les distances entre les lieux, les objets et les êtres (sa femme Kristina restée à Stockholm). Mais lorsqu'il découvre Sara Fredrika vivant seule sur une île désolée, la présence de cette femme très vite l'obsède et il devient son amant. Le fragile couvercle qu'il maintenait sur son " abîme " intérieur se soulève et son univers tiré au cordeau vole en éclats. D'allers et retours entre l'île et Stockholm, il s'invente des missions secrètes. De mensonge en mensonge - à Sara Fredrika, à Kristina, qui perd la raison, à l'amirauté qui le pousse à démissionner -, Tobiasson perd pied, sombre dans la folie et se suicide par noyade. Dans ce récit sobre et parfaitement construit, porté par une intensité émotionnelle constante, Mankell se mesure ici avec les plus grands auteurs suédois contemporains, Torgny Lindgren et Per Olof Enquist.

After killing a man in the line of duty, Kurt Wallander resolves to quit the Ystad police. However, a bizarre case gets under his skin. A lawyer driving home at night stops to investigate an effigy sitting in a chair in the middle of the highway. The lawyer is hit over the head and dies. Within a week the lawyer's son is also killed. These deeply puzzling mysteries compel Wallander to remain on the force. The prime suspect is a powerful corporate mogul with a gleaming smile that Wallander believes hides the evil glee of a killer. Joined by Ann-Britt Hoglund, Wallander begins to uncover the truth, but the same merciless individuals responsible for the murders are now closing in on him.

One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, looking for witnesses, they uncover a crime unprecedented in Swedish history. When Judge Birgitta Roslin reads about the massacre, she realises that she has a family connection to one of the couples involved and decides to investigate. A nineteenth-century diary and a red silk ribbon found in the forest nearby are the only clues. What Birgitta eventually uncovers leads her into an international web of corruption and a story of vengeance that stretches back over a hundred years, linking China and the USA of the 1860s with modern-day Beijing, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and coming to a shocking climax in London's Chinatown. The Man from Beijing is both a gripping and perceptive political thriller and a compelling detective story. It shows Henning Mankell at the height of his powers, handling a broad historical canvas and pressing international issues with his exceptional gifts for insight and chilling suspense.

Kurt Wallander ez da ari bere bizitzako unerik gozoena pasatzen: familia harremanak gaiztotu egin zaizkio, gehiegi edaten du, lo gutxi egiten, zabartzen ari da itxuraren aldetik... Hala eta guztiz ere, Lenarp aiton-amona baserritarren hilketaren ikerketa bere gain hartzen du. Agurea modurik baldarrenean izan da torturatua hil arte; amona, berriz, arnasarik gabe uzteraino estrangulatu dute; azken hatsa bota baino lehen, ordea, kanpotarra hitza ezpaineratu zaio. Arrazismoa pil-pilean dagoen gizarte batean egin beharko du lan Wallander komisarioak. Badaki, gainera, onbera itxurako larru askoren azpian munstrorik handienak ere gorde daitezkeela. Ez du, bada, bizi den gizartearenganako aparteko fede onik...

La historia de la lucha de una joven contra la pobreza y la injusticia en uno de los países del mundo más pobres y devastados por la guerra: Mozambique. Algo va muy mal. De pronto, Armando nvuelve cada vez mas tarde por las noches y, a pesar de que los ingresos del taller de coches son escasos, lleva ropa nueva. Sin embargo, Sofia y los tres niños no reciben nada. Cuando las peores sospechas de Sofia se confirman, el engaño es un hecho. En lugar de tragarse la ira,Sofia decide irse por su propio camino. Pero el precio sera elevado para todos.

Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table. One morning in the depths of winter, he sees a hunched figure struggling towards him across the ice. His past is about to catch up with him. The figure approaching in the freezing cold is Harriet, the only woman he has ever loved, the woman he abandoned in order[...]

En Joel ―el protagonista d'El gos que corria cap a un estel i Les ombres creixen al capvespre― té tretze anys i vol fugir del poble on viu, al nord de Suècia. La nit que cau la primera neu es fa tres promeses solemnes: abans no acabi l'any vol veure el mar i una noia despullada; a més, vol arribar als cent anys. Es llença amb determinació i enginy a fer realitat aquestes promeses, entre les quals la número dos resultarà ser la més senzilla...

Eine spannende Kriminalgeschichte - aus Wallanders erster Fall. Kurz nach acht Uhr abends betritt er sein Fotoatelier am Marktplatz, wenige Stunden später ist Simon Lamberg tot. Erschlagen, wie Kommissar Kurt Wallander bald feststellen muß. Dunkel erinnert er sich an den alteingesessenen Fotografen, hat er doch selbst - wie jeder hier in Ystad - schon einmal dessen Dienste in Anspruch genommen. Aber was für ein Mensch war Lamberg? Wer hatte ein Interesse an seinem Tod? Ein merkwürdiger Mord: Es finden sich keine Spuren von Gewaltanwendung an den Türen, und es scheint auch nichts gestohlen worden zu sein. Die Ermittlungen laufen im Kreis. Da stößt Wallander auf ein Fotoalbum mit makabrem Inhalt ...

"Nichts ist seit den Höhlenzeichnungen der Steinzeitmenschen so bewegend wie diese Bücher sterbender Eltern für ihre Kinder." Elke Heidenreich "Es ist zwei Wochen her, daß Aida mir gezeigt hat, wo sie ihre Mangopflanze versteckt hat, ein paar Meilen nördlich von Kampala in Uganda." - Aidas Mutter wird bald an Aids sterben. Aber Aida pflanzt einen Mangobaum als Symbol des Lebens. Und von ihrer Mutter bekommt sie ein Memory Book … Henning Mankell ist nach Uganda gereist, um mit Aidskranken und deren Angehörigen zu sprechen. Entwicklungshelfer unterstützen die Eltern dabei, Memory Books für ihre Kinder zu verfassen: Erinnerungsbücher, kleine Hefte mit eingeklebten Bildern und Texten. Denn was können Kinder über ihre Eltern erzählen, wenn sie bei ihrem Tod noch zu klein waren, um sich an sie zu erinnern? Wie sollen junge Waisen erfahren, wer ihre Eltern waren, wer sie selbst sind, woher sie kommen?

Als die Archäologin Louise Cantor von ihrer Ausgrabung in Griechenland zu einem Vortrag nach Schweden reist, will sie auch ihren 25-jährigen Sohn wiedersehen. Doch als sie die Wohnung in Stockholm betritt, liegt Henrik tot in seinem Bett. Die Polizei geht von Selbstmord aus, aber daran kann Louise nicht glauben. In dem Kleiderschrank ihres Sohnes findet sie eine Menge Material zu der Frage, warum das Hirn von John F. Kennedy nach der Obduktion spurlos verschwand. War Henrik einem kriminellen Geheimnis auf der Spur? Je mehr sie über sein Leben erfährt, umso klarer wird ihr, wie wenig sie ihren Sohn eigentlich gekannt hat. Auf der Suche nach Hinweisen, die seinen Tod erklären könnten, reist sie nach Australien zu ihrem verschwundenen Exmann und folgt Henriks Spuren über Barcelona nach Mosambik. Dort stößt sie auf ein Asyl für mittellose Aidskranke, in dem auch ihr Sohn gearbeitet hat und das von einem reichen weißen Mann aus scheinbar selbstlosen Gründen ins Leben gerufen wurde. Doch Louise ahnt bald, dass sich dahinter ein ungeheurer humanitärer Skandal verbirgt …

Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill the missionary dream of his recently deceased friend Janice. Africa is a complete shock to Olofson, yet he chooses to stay and make it his home, eventually taking control of a small farm. Here, he learns of the fragile truce between the white and black populations of Zambia, and rumors of an underground army of revolutionaries wearing leopard skins alert him that violence may erupt at any moment. As a wealthy white man, he grows increasingly fearful and returns in his mind to the traumatic events that drove him from Sweden, playing back the complicated events of his past, as his present races toward a thrilling climax.

The essential read for all fans of Kurt Wallander. When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless KILLERS back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him; he ate badly and drank alone at night. THE PYRAMID chronicles the events that led him to such a place. These thrilling tales provide a fascinating insight into Wallander's character, and demand to be read in one sitting.

When archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Clues that only a mother could detect lead her to believe something more sinister took place. Henrik had kept many things back from her and she is shocked to learn he had contracted HIV. While looking through his bundles of papers, she discovers he was obsessed with the conspiracy theory that JFK's brain disappeared prior to the autopsy - along with the vital evidence regarding bullet exit wounds. The only lead is a letter and photograph from Henrik's girlfriend in Mozambique.Louise's quest to unravel the mystery surrounding her son's death takes her to Africa; a continent rife with disease, poverty and corruption. Struggling to cope with sickness and the oppressive heat, Louise sees fear in every face, even unexpectedly in the patients at the clinics set up by an American businessman. In Kennedy's Brain, Mankell confirms his status as a master of suspense, and delivers a timely and riveting thriller which will have readers on the edge of their seats until the very end.

Una obra de teatre del creador de Kurt WallanderUna parella esta a punt de deixar l'Africa despres de catorze anys treballant en un programa d'ajuda internacional. El darrer dia de la seva estada al continent africa, reben Lundin, l'home que ocupara el seu lloc. Mentre fan balanç dels darrers anys, davant l'estupor del nouvingut, la parella treu a la llum tots els conflictes personals i laborals que han sorgit al llarg del temps, mentre l'Africa va envaint, literalment, la casa. L'autor ens mostra, en un text excels i ple de cinisme, una Africa tintada pels fantasmes de la visio occidental. Com afirma el mateix Mankell en el text de presentacio de l'obra, Antilops parla dels conflictes derivats de la doble moral d'occident respecte del continent africa: "Arribem a l'Africa amb respostes. Hi hauriem d'arribar amb preguntes. Fem servir un munt de paraules innecessaries quan, de fet, el que hauriem de fer es escoltar."