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jazzy_daveHenning Mankell "An Event In Autumn" (Vintage)
An aging Wallander is feeling his years, with some dissatisfaction over how much things have changed ("When he had first started to patrol the streets there was a big difference between what happened in a city like Malmö and small towns like Ystad. But nowadays there was hardly any difference at all."), yet chafing at the parts of his life that have gone too long without changing. When his partner offers him a chance at a house out of the city ("He wanted to get out into the countryside, he wanted to acquire a dog."), Wallender agrees to take a look at the property. While he's strolling in the garden, picturing his possible life (...[he] found himself already imagining a dog drinking water from a bowl by his side."), he stumbles, literally, on a gruesome mystery: the remains of a human hand, sticking up out of the ground. And although Wallander will never now be able to live in the house, he will also be unable to stop investigating until he knows who was buried there--and why.
One of the best parts of this book, apart from the story, is the Afterword in which Henning Mankell explains how the story was published and where it fits in the continuum of the Wallander stories. There is a longer section titled HOW IT STARTED, HOW IT FINISHED AND WHAT HAPPENED IN BETWEEN which is also worth reading. In it he talks about his relationship with Wallender, and how he feels about the depictions of Wallender in the three TV series that have been produced.
This slender novella offers a brief glimpse at a Kurt Wallander case, but works as a stand-alone for those not familiar with Mankell's fictional detective or for those just looking for a thumping good yarn.
An aging Wallander is feeling his years, with some dissatisfaction over how much things have changed ("When he had first started to patrol the streets there was a big difference between what happened in a city like Malmö and small towns like Ystad. But nowadays there was hardly any difference at all."), yet chafing at the parts of his life that have gone too long without changing. When his partner offers him a chance at a house out of the city ("He wanted to get out into the countryside, he wanted to acquire a dog."), Wallender agrees to take a look at the property. While he's strolling in the garden, picturing his possible life (...[he] found himself already imagining a dog drinking water from a bowl by his side."), he stumbles, literally, on a gruesome mystery: the remains of a human hand, sticking up out of the ground. And although Wallander will never now be able to live in the house, he will also be unable to stop investigating until he knows who was buried there--and why.
One of the best parts of this book, apart from the story, is the Afterword in which Henning Mankell explains how the story was published and where it fits in the continuum of the Wallander stories. There is a longer section titled HOW IT STARTED, HOW IT FINISHED AND WHAT HAPPENED IN BETWEEN which is also worth reading. In it he talks about his relationship with Wallender, and how he feels about the depictions of Wallender in the three TV series that have been produced.
This slender novella offers a brief glimpse at a Kurt Wallander case, but works as a stand-alone for those not familiar with Mankell's fictional detective or for those just looking for a thumping good yarn.
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Date: 2016-02-29 12:54 am (UTC)Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2016-02-29 12:04 pm (UTC)*HUGS*