Asesinos Sin Rostro (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Henning Mankell (Author), Dea M. Mansten (Translator), Amanda Monjonell Mansten (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2005

En este historico primer encuentro con sus lectores, el inspector Wallander debe resolver un caso casi tan complicado como su vida personal. Mientras procura desenmascarar a los despiadados asesinos de una anciana que ha muerto con la palabra ""extranjero"" en la boca antes de que los prejuicios raciales latentes en la comunidad desaten una ola de violencia vengadora, Wallander debe enfrentar el abandono de su esposa, la hostilidad de su hija, la demencia senil de su padre y hasta su propio deterioro fisico a causa del exceso de alcohol y comida barata y la falta de sueño. Wallander terminaran por hallar la inesperada solucion del caso, pero sus problemas familiares no acabaran con este libro. Por no hablar de los de su pais, arrojado a una nueva era en la que, como cree el inspector, ""la inquietud aumentara bajo el cielo"". / In his first appearance in English, Swedish bestselling author Mankell combines thriller-quality entertainment with a depiction of anti-foreigner prejudice in Sweden, painted here as a very chilly place indeed. Since his wife walked out on him, Kurt Wallender, a middle-aged cop in the small town of Lenarp, has drowned his sorrows in opera and far too much liquor. Such consolations can't help him absorb the scene at the Lovgren farm, where elderly Johannes Lovgren has been brutally beaten and stabbed to death and where his wife, Maria, is found barely alive with a noose around her neck. Rydberg, a police force old-timer, says the noose's unusual knot and the word foreigner, which Maria uttered before she died, are important. Wallender puts those clues on the back burner when he learns that Johannes, ostensibly a simple farmer, had a secret life involving wealth and connections unknown to his wife. However, a leak to the press complicates the investigation by arousing anti-immigrant feelings, some of which are expressed in anonymous threats. Mankell is clearly a skilled writer, and his portrait of Wallender (who periodically slides beneath respectability) is effective. But he provides essential information only at the last minute, which makes the solution feel more like an appendix than a conclusion. Also, American readers may find odd Mankell's bundling of his upright anti-racism message with broad notions of what constitutes acceptable social control. Reed Business Information

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About the Author

Henning Mankell nacio en Estocolmo, Suecia, en 1948, y en la actualidad divide su tiempo entre Suecia y Mozambique, donde dirige el teatro nacional Avenida de Maputo. Es autor de numerosas obras de ficcion y uno de los dramaturgos mas populares de su pais. No obstante, lo que lo ha convertido en un escritor de fama mundial es la serie de novelas policiacas protagonizadas por el inspector Kurt Wallander, traducidas a treinta y siete idiomas, aclamadas por el publico, merecedoras de numerosos premios y adaptadas al cine y la television. Tusquets Editores ha publicado la serie completa, compuesta por nueve titulos, a la que le siguieron, con gran exito de publico, El retorno del profesor de baile y Antes de que hiele. Ademas, Tusquets Editores ha publicado El cerebro de Kennedy, Profundidades y Zapatos italianos, sus tres novelas mas recientes. En 2007, Mankell recibio en Barcelona el II Premio Pepe Carvalho. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: TusQuets (April 2005)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 9871210051
• ISBN-13: 978-9871210053
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,145,018 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)