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Henning Mankell
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Pages: 528 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0099488655
Pub: Vintage
Pub date: 2007-10-04
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 52724
Reader Reviews:
i disagree with the other review (1/1 people found this helpful)
I read this book 5 months ago so i have had some space now to reflect upon it. It is not a typical mankell police procedural but it is a fascinating story of a man who makes a series of bad decisions and is at the mercy of his disfunctional emotions. I am not usually interested in the setting of the physical scene but the geography of this story is so unusual and fascinating that it did hold my attention: indeed where the story takes place is crucial to events.
It is a story that takes time to develop (rather than a reaction to a serious crime outlined in the opening chapter) but it is well worth the time invested in it.
A very dissapointing Mankell novel (6/11 people found this helpful)
I have read all the other Henning Mankell books and loved them, however I hated this.
I had read 120 pages and not enjoyed any. Wanted to bin it, but kept going because it was a Mankell novel.
The book does improve to the point where you do want to find out what happens, however I simply did not enjoy the book at all.
Its a story about a Swedish Navel Engineer asked to map out the depths of the seas around Stockholm. On one of the remote islands near where he is working he meets a desolute woman living by herself (and this doesnt happen for over 100 pages), and the story tells of his relationship with her and that of his wife.
It simply didnt work for me. The story took too long in getting going and in the end it dissapoints anyway.
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