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El Xinès

by Henning Mankell
language: spanish, catalan
Publisher: LABUTXACA, January of 2015 ‧
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Un matí glaçat del gener de 2006, un fotògraf fa un descobriment aterridor: dinou persones han estat assassinades al poblet suec de Hesjövallen. La policia sospita que el crim és obra d?un pertorbat, però la jutgessa Birgitta Roslin, que s?interessa en el cas perquè entre les víctimes hi ha la família adoptiva de la seva mare, defensa una altra teoria. El que Birgitta no sap, però, és que tot es remunta a una vella història de l?any 1860, quan milers de xinesos van ser conduïts als Estats Units i forçats a treballar en la construcció del ferrocarril de la costa oest. Les conseqüències d?aquesta dramàtica odissea arriben fins a la poderosa i conflictiva Xina del segle xxi.á

El Xinès

by Henning Mankell

Property Description
ISBN: 9788483839843
Publisher: LABUTXACA
Release Date: January of 2015
Language: Spanish, Catalan
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 464
Format: Book
Categories: Books in Spanish > Fiction > Police and Suspense
EAN: 9788483839843

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell was born in Stockholm in 1948 and died in 2015 in Gothenburg. For a long time he was a playwright and theatre director, namely at Teatro Avenida in Maputo, Mozambique. Since 1990, he has devoted his literary work to police officers headed by Kurt Wallander. With this character he sought to recreate an "old-fashioned" policeman who tries, at all costs, to fight against a modern Sweden in which racist ideas and extreme violence prevail. Through a unique blend of American Noir and the existential melancholy common to Europeans, Mankell describes a world where crime is solved through pure inspiration or simple drudgery, and where the specter of our own mortality is an intrinsic and unavoidable condition for each of us.

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