The Man from Beijing

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Price
$23.00
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publish Date
Pages
464
Dimensions
5.33 X 7.96 X 1.02 inches | 0.77 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780307472847

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About the Author

Henning Mankell is the internatinally acclaimed, bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander novels. Mankell's novels have been translated into forty-five languages and have sold more than forty million copies worldwide. He was the first winner of the Ripper Award and also received the Glass Key and the Crime Writers' Association Golden Dagger, among other awards. His Kurt Wallander mysteries have been adapted into a PBS television series starring Kenneth Branagh. During his life, Mankell divided his time between Sweden and Mozambique, where he was artistic director of the Teatro Avenida in Maputo. He died in 2015.

Reviews

"A complex and enormously satisfying thriller . . . Grade: A." --Entertainment Weekly

"Cements Mankell's reputation as Sweden's greatest living mystery writer." --Los Angeles Times

"This novel is epic in its scope and sure to please fans of literary and crime novels." --USA Today

"Henning Mankell reminds us that there's a master of Swedish noir still writing." --The New York Times

"A page-burning new thriller . . . Mankell keeps the suspense at level 11, pulling the reader along a taut wire of political intrigue, historical wrongs, [and] personal drama."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"A great mystery that belongs in the company of other knockout masterpieces of moral complexity and atmosphere like Dorothy Sayers's The Nine Tailors, Robert Goddard's Beyond Recall, Barbara Vine's A Dark-Adapted Eye. . . . A brilliant tale of suspense and substance that dedicated mystery readers will want to savor."--Washington Post

"A terrific police procedural."--Dallas Morning News

"Mankell's new book is an original but still chock-a-block with gory crime combined with hints of the late Stieg Larsson's social concern and John le Carré's international intrigue."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Absorbing. . . . Suggests the brilliance of Graham Greene . . . Mankell seems capable of just about anything."--Toronto Star

"The Man from Beijing has the sweep of a John le Carré mystery . . . reaching back through history and across the globe."--Winnipeg Free Press

"A compelling stand-alone novel . . . Mankell succeeds in transfixing the reader with a masterly balance of character sketches and pell-mell storytelling."--Wall Street Journal

"Its aim is broad and high, startlingly so: It's out to shake us up, saying something about the world we're in, about the nature of our lives at this moment. . . . The Man from Beijing is flavored with the . . . tang of time's passage itself. . . . Remarkable."--Philadelphia Inquirer