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Archive for February 16, 2010

THE MAN FROM THE BEIJING by Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell’s The Man from Beijing, ably translated by Laurie Thompson, opens in January 2006. It is eerily quiet in the northern Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen. No smoke rises from the chimneys and not a soul stirs. A photographer studying deserted villages in Sweden arrives and knocks on doors, but no one answers. Fearing that something is wrong, he breaks into one of the houses…

February 16, 2010  Tags: Around-the-World, Chinese, Mystery  Posted in: Award Winning Author, Mystery/Suspense, Sweden, Swedish Crime Writer, World Literature  No Comments

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