2011-12-06
The Troubled Man favourite crime book of the year
The Sunday Book Review in the New York Times has chosen The Troubled Man as one of the favourite books in the list of Notable Crime Books of 2011.
”The final exit of a beloved sleuth is the focal point of my choice: THE TROUBLED MAN. Henning Mankell makes it clear that his brilliant if chronically depressed Swedish detective, Kurt Wallander, has solved his last case. In the course of investigating a political conspiracy that dates back to the cold war, Wallander comes to realize “how little he actually knew about the world he had lived in” and how inadequate his efforts to fix that broken world have proved. Although it accounts for his perpetual mood of despair, that insight also makes him a hero for this age of anxiety.” – Marilyn Stasio, the Sunday Book Review.