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Den verdenskendte svenske krimiforfatter, Henning Mankell, kører galt i sin bil en vinterdag. Bilen er totalskadet, Mankell har umiddelbart ingen alvorlige mén, men lader sig for en sikkerheds skyld røntgenfotografere. Resultatet er en kræftdiagnose, som han får i januar 2014. Dette er rammen om Henning Mankells bog. "En alvorlig historie om glæden ved livet" er en selvbiografisk bog, der handler meget mere om det levede liv end om døden. Sygdommen giver Mankell inspiration til at skrive om, hvad det vil sige at være menneske.

Henning Mankell, mest kendt for sine Wallander-krimier, beretter her om sine besøg hos en række AIDS-ramte i Østafrika. Personligt, indtrængende og sobert fortæller han om de menneskelige tragedier, der gemmer sig bag det uhyrlige antal smittede og døde, som ofte efterlader sig gamle forældre og mindreårige. Mankell samarbejder med den internationale hjælpeorganisation PLAN om bogen, og alle Mankells royalties, såvel som enhver fortjeneste ved salget i det hele taget, går til PLAN's arbejde med de såkaldte "mindebøger".

El emocionante relato de un hombre sacudido por la tragedia al que le ha llegado el momento de afrontar su propio pasado. Fredrik Welin, médico retirado, vive solo y alejado del mundo en una isla junto a la costa sueca; pero su reclusión voluntaria se ve perturbada un día por la llegada de un...

Henning Mankells Vermächtnis. Durch Zufall begegnen sich Stefan und Elisabeth, die zusammen zur Schule gingen, am Flughafen wieder. Es stellt sich heraus, dass beide aus demselben Grund dort sind: um nach Afrika zu fliegen. Doch unterschiedlicher könnten ihre Pläne kaum sein: Stefan, aus einer wohlhabenden Familie, möchte in Afrika feiern und Sex haben. Elisabeth hingegen, die es in ihrem Elternhaus schwer hat, sieht die Reise als Chance auf einen Neuanfang und als Suche nach sich selbst.

Warum musste ihr Sohn Henrik sterben? War er einer Verschwörung auf die Spur gekommen? Drehte sich alles um das verschwundene Hirn des toten John F. Kennedy? Louise Cantor kann Henriks sinnlosen Tod nicht fassen und folgt seinen letzten Spuren nach Mosambik. Sie führen in Bordelle, Slums und in ein Asyl für Aidskranke, gestiftet von einem mysteriösen Spender. Doch Louise ahnt bald, dass sich hinter der Maske der Wohltätigkeit skrupellose Machenschaften verbergen.

Eigentlich hatte der junge Mann nur eine kurze Reise nach Afrika machen wollen, aber dann war er neunzehn Jahre geblieben. Statt in Uppsala sein Jurastudium zu beenden, übernimmt er in Lusaka die Hühnerfarm einer weißen Engländerin, deren Mann im Busch verschollen ist. Doch nach einem schrecklichen Anschlag auf seine Nachbarn mehren sich die Zeichen, dass die Reformpläne des jungen Mannes gefährliche Gegner haben.

On an icy night in Northern Sweden Joel is drawn outside to haunt the streets. He finds the night-time activity of his stolid town mesmerising in its unexpectedness and variety. But can he deal with the knowledge that he gains about his neighbours, his father, and himself?

At three p.m. on a Saturday afternoon in 1911, Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast in an industrial accident. The local newspaper reports him dead, but they are mistaken. Because Oskar Johansson is a born survivor. Though crippled, Oskar finds the strength to go on living and working. The Rock Blaster charts his long professional life - his hopes and dreams, sorrows and joys. His relationship with the woman whose love saved him, with the labour movement that gave him a cause to believe in, and with his children, who do not share his ideals.  

Brought to you by Penguin. It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But, unknown to them, they are being watched. Each is killed by a single bullet. Soon afterwards, one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Is it the same killer...

Brought to you by Penguin. Since his mother's disappearance, Hans Olofson has led an isolated life. When he loses his girlfriend in tragic circumstances, he decides to fulfil her dream: to visit the grave of a legendary missionary in Zambia. On reaching Africa, Hans is struck by its beauty and...

Herbert Molin, a retired police officer, lives alone in a remote cottage in northern Sweden. Two things seem to consume him; his passion for the tango, and an obsession with the "demons" he believes to be pursuing him. Early one morning shots shatter Molin's window- by the time his body is found it is almost unrecognisable. Stefan Lindman is another off-the-job police officer.

Henning Mankell's first novel, never before released in English, explores the reflections of a working class man who has struggled against the constraints of his station for his entire life. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL. The year is 1911. The young rock blaster Oskar Johansson has been killed in an...

La seconda inchiesta del commissario Wallander. Sulle coste svedesi, in un freddo mattino d’inverno, da un peschereccio che si fa strada tra i ghiacci viene avvistato un gommone di salvataggio. A bordo ci sono due cadaveri. Le indagini portano il commissario Wallander a est: la polizia di Ystad ha le prove che i due uomini sono stati uccisi e che l’imbarcazione veniva dalla Lettonia. Kurt Wallander parte così per Riga, dove si trova coinvolto in una cospirazione legata ai drammatici cambiamenti politici dei Paesi Baltici.

La prima inchiesta del commissario Wallander. Sulle tracce di un assassino che colpisce con inaudita violenza, il commissario Kurt Wallander deve fare i conti anche con chi ha deciso di farsi giustizia da sé. Una fredda giornata di gennaio poco prima dell’alba, in un paese del sud della Svezia, un contadino scopre che i suoi vicini, una coppia di vecchi contadini come lui, sono stati assaliti e picchiati barbaramente. Basta una fuga di notizie e comincia la caccia all'uomo. I cittadini non si fidano della polizia, preferiscono organizzare da sé la loro sicurezza e la loro vendetta.

In 1875 Hans Bengler, a young entomologist, leaves Sweden for the expedition of a lifetime to the Kalahari Desert where he hopes to find a previously undiscovered insect to name after himself and advance his career. Instead, after his long and arduous journey through the sands, he finds a small...

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...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The White Lioness by Henning Mankell, read by Sean Barrett. In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears. There is no explanation and no motive. Inspector...

The leader of a religious cult in Guyana instigates a mass suicide. He succeeds in killing himself and his whole flock of worshippers, save one. One man escapes. In the wood in the country land outside Ystad, the police make an horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in...

Crestfallen, dejected and spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander has made up his mind to quit the police force for good. When an old acquaintance, a solicitor, seeks Wallander's help to investigate the suspicious...

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...