Asesinos sin rostro (Inspector Wallander) (Spanish Edition)

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Also, if you'd like some pictures of Ystad to use as your computer desktop, they have a couple prepared for you to download:. The red fire truck is used for the In Wallander's Footsteps tours of Ystad given by the volunteer firemen. This is a very nice site and well worth the time to explore it. A good review and two interviews with Henning Mankell have followed the publication of Chronicler of the Winds and his recent public appearance in London. First off, the Independent features an interview with Mankell titled Chronicle of a death foretold.

Street children continuously surrounded the theatre, and they made a tremendous impression on him. He tells me that "I used to see a boy of seven years old, together with his old brother, whom he was taking care of. And once when I was talking to him, I had the strange feeling that I was with someone not seven but Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: I think it's frightening, horrifying to look a street child in the eyes, and you can see, my God, this child is bitter!

The full interview is available at the Independent Online web site. It focuses on Chronicler of the Winds as well as Mankell's childhood and the Wallander series:. Visit the Times Online website for the full two-page interview, titled Blowing hot and cold.

Continue on to the Guardian web site to read more of Slaughter of the innocent. Several reviews of this film are listed on our Chronicler of the Winds page. The novel Depths , published as Djup in Swedish, is the next work from Henning Mankell scheduled for publication in English. The novel is neither neither a mystery nor set in Africa so readers can look forward to something new and interesting from Mankell.

Here's the official synopsis:. Close to the waters where soundings are taken Tobiasson-Svartman alights on a barren skerry, presumed uninhabited, and is surprised to discover there a young woman, Sara Fredrika. Despite her almost feral appearance, something about her strikes him to the core. The mission is a success and the Svea returns to Gothenburg. Tobiasson-Svartman, however, remains haunted by this chance encounter; his equilibrium has been disturbed, and he is now compelled to find any pretence to return to the remote islet. In "Depths", Mankell confirms his status as a writer beyond the crime genre.

By delving deep into the male psyche, he has produced a novel both as tense and compelling in every way as the "Wallander" series, but also powerful, moving and ultimately tragic. In the US, a Canadian version is listed. In it, Mankell tells the story of a young boy named Nelio who recounts his short life to a stranger while dying:. At the age of five, Nelio watched helplessly as his village was burned to the ground and his people were massacred by bandits. He escaped by chance; a man handed him a gun and ordered him to shoot another boy, but instead he turned the gun on the bandit and ran.

He made his way to the coast, encountering en route bizarre characters who gave him guidance.

Upon arrival in the city Nelio joined a rough street gang, and began a very different way of life. The UK and US editions, respectively. Radio Sweden's " Literary 5 " is a new series of shows where reporter Gaby Katz talks with some of Sweden's most famous contemporary writers for 5 minutes. The interview with Henning Mankell is scheduled to appear on 20 March and should be available for internet streaming using Real Player software at any time thereafter.

The radio show with Mankell is described as:. To learn more about the Literary 5 series, visit the Radio Sweden web site. Spanish-speaking fans of the Kurt Wallander series now have five of the classic Inspector Wallander films available for purchase on DVD. The covers are shown below:. Click on the covers to see a larger image. He thinks that Mrs Lovgren's last word is accurate, and that the murderers are foreign. But his conclusion leads to several racially-motivated attacks after the information is leaked to the press.

The story focuses on Sweden's liberal attitude regarding immigration , and explores themes of racism and national identity. The novel was adapted into a four-episode television miniseries, Wallander , by the Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television in It was first broadcast on 3 January From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Faceless Killers First edition Swedish. Retrieved 22 May The prose is flat, only two of Henning Mankell might be the most famous Scandinavian writer of crime novels in the US.

The prose is flat, only two of the characters come alive for me, and I was a tiny bit bored as well. I made the mistake of teaching this novel at Portland State University and my students absolutely hated it. Every single of them. I like the portrait of the main character and the small meditations on immigrants and racism in Sweden. View all 16 comments. Da ne govorimo o Kenetu Brani koji je presonalizovao britansku verziju serijala o inspektoru Valanderu An elderly couple is robbed and brutally murdered and it's up to police inspector Kurt Wallander to find the killer or killers.

Can Kurt act on the meager information he has available and solve the case as his private life disintegrates around him? Faceless Killers is the first such book to fall into my hands. Faceless Killers isn't a happy An elderly couple is robbed and brutally murdered and it's up to police inspector Kurt Wallander to find the killer or killers.

Faceless Killers isn't a happy book, much as its title indicates. It's bleaker than a visit to an insurance office, mostly due to poor Kurt Wallander and his life. The mystery is an intriguing one and delves into the secret life of one of the victims. The mystery is not of the solveable variety but that's ultimately not that important.

My main attractions to Faceless Killers were the glimpse into Swedish society and Kurt Wallander himself. The fact that one of Wallander's clues is that the killer is a foreigner thrusts the reader into a world of refugees, racism, and red tape. There are false leads and I have to admit I wasn't sure what was going on in the investigation part of the time.

And that brings us to Kurt Wallander himself. He's no super-hero unless lonliness and not having anything go right in his personal life is a super power. He's getting older and fatter, his wife left him, his daughter is a stranger, his relationship with his father is strained, and all he has is his job. Faceless Killers is a good police procedural story. It's pretty bleak and moves a little slowly for my tastes but is still a good read. I'll give it a 3, possibly upgrading to a 4 somewhere down the line. View all 19 comments. Sep 29, notgettingenough rated it did not like it Shelves: Maybe this book is dreadfully translated Mostly you end up with a bunch of bits that don't make sense.

It's a popular theory in Australia that Ikea furniture is some sort of revenge upon people who live in sunlight. Maybe Henning Mankell is a plot to get the people who escaped the Ikea trap. We all over here prefer more Abba and less bad furniture and miserable books please. View all 3 comments. May 03, Lynne King rated it it was amazing Shelves: There's something about Swedish authors that both fascinates me and tugs at my heartstrings.

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Henning Mankell does indeed do that for me with his Inspector Kurt Wallander. The air of suspense begins with the words: Something he dreamt during the night. Something he ought to remember. He tries to remember. But sleep is like a black hole. A well that reveals nothing of its contents. We soon discover that a gruesome murder has taken place in a farm, with only a neighbouring farmhouse, outside the sleepy village of Lunnarp. A seventy year old man wakes up at 4. There are two elements that intrigue him. Johannes has regrettably been killed but Maria clings on to life for a while in the hospital.

Prior to her death, she mentions an odd word. It is this word that is to be the clue in the who, what, when, where, why equation. With dogged determination, following every conceivable avenue, deductive reasoning and going by his intuition, a frustrated Wallander continues in his investigation. There are many false leads and dead ends. Was it a robbery? Did the couple have money? Wrong suspects are interviewed. The investigation is indeed frustrating for everyone involved and time-consuming, spreading over a six month period. I truly empathised with him.

His wife Mona had left him three months ago and was in the process of divorcing him, his nineteen year old daughter Linda wants nothing more to do with him after a failed suicide attempt when she was fifteen.

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He is constantly arguing with his widowed father, a painter, who continuously paints more or less the same picture, may add a grouse or a tree to make it slightly different but still manages to sell them. He has been painting the same motif all his life in fact. Wallander drinks too much, is overweight through eating too many pizzas and the like, since Mona left him, loves his opera, especially Maria Callas and Traviata, is loyal to his colleagues at the Ystad police station, especially Rydberg who suffers badly from rheumatism and uses a cane; is constantly wondering how he can improve his lot and especially his relationships with his family.

Works long hours, suffers from loneliness and seems to have a constantly bruised face from fights and the like and yet I loved his character so much.

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A few millimetres were all that saved him from an untimely death. He had been twenty-three then, suddenly profoundly aware of what it meant to be a policeman. The incantation was his way of fending off the memories. There is definitely an air of gloom that pervades this book but I still love it: He went over to the window and looked out into the darkness. The wind was howling, and somewhere an advertising sign was banging against a wall.

His instincts tell him that he should not get involved with her and yet This is the first in the Kurt Wallander series. I don't really like series too much as they tend, well in my opinion anyway, to become like a template. But yes I will read number 2! All in all, a fantastic book and reading more about Henning Mankell, I see that he has had cancer since the beginning of this year and is currently having treatment.

Treatment has improved and advanced so much from what it was even ten years ago. New life-saving treatments are constantly being found… View all 11 comments.

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Apr 03, James Thane rated it liked it Shelves: When we first meet him, Wallander has a boatload of personal problems: Against the backdrop of this troubled personal life, Wallandar is assigned to lead the investigation of the savage murder or an elderly farm couple. There is no apparent motive and ther This is the first entry in Henning Mankell's series featuring Swedish detective Kurt Wallander.

There is no apparent motive and there are virtually no clues, save for the last dying word of the murdered woman, which is "Foreign. Fear and prejudice are on the rise, and although the police have absolutely no evidence to support such a conclusion, some anti-immigrant elements jump to the conclusion that foreigners were responsible for the killings. They want revenge and they seek to use the murders as an excuse to reverse the immigrant tide. Mankell thus sets the stage for a clever police procedural set against the larger social issue of how welcoming Sweden--or any other country--should be to growing numbers of immigrants.

Wallander is typical of the breed of plodding Scandinavian detectives who refuse to give up until they have deduced the solution to the case. At times, though, you find yourself wondering why he soldiers along in the face of the overwhelming personal problems in his life off-duty. Mankell is a very good writer and I admire what he has done here.

That said, I find the Kurt Wallander character to be a little too oppressed and a little too humorless for my taste. Like a lot of Scandinavian mysteries, this one takes place in the dead of a long, depressing winter, which only reinforces the generally depressing mood of the book as a whole. I enjoyed reading it, and I'm certainly willing to give the series another try, but I may need a jolt of someone like Lucas Davenport to cheer me up a bit first.

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One of those books that I thought I would not like but ended up really liking. I am not really a big fan of mystery whodunnit books but this one really hooked me from start to finish. The plot is not really focused on who the killer is but on the main protagonist and his life: Of course, you'd l One of those books that I thought I would not like but ended up really liking. Of course, you'd like to find out who the killer is but that's was secondary to me. I think this is also the first book or not that I've read with Sweden as the setting and I found it interesting because I have not been there.

Asesinos sin rostro

Prior to this book, the images of Sweden in my mind were either those beautiful Ms. Universe contestants, milk products with cows and young smiling girls holding a glass of milk on their covers. Funny but that was Sweden in my mind. Why did I think that I would not like this? I got tired of him. But Kurt Wallander is different. His being an inspector a detective is just about any job in the office. As I read this in the past 5 working days, I could not help relate what he goes through to what I am going through in the office.

There are times that even if I put everything I have full attention, extended working hours, extensive research , there are just some things that would not work and at the time when everything looks hopeless, comes a spark of inspiration or a word, a phrase uttered by someone in my case, my boss that made me think: In Wallander's case, it was that view spoiler [ bank teller who has excellent memory of what happened that day in the bank when Johannes Lovgren was murdered.

He is alike rah-rah detective always running around going from one building to another and chasing killers. I just got tired of him.

Here, Inspector Kurt Wallander is like you and me. He drives a car sometimes even drunk as he is missing his wife but dreams of other sexy babes. Why, we men all do that, right? We love our wives but still have hots for pretty ladies we meet. I mean, Wallander is all too human for you not to relate to him. In the end when I repeatedly says to his dying friend, "I made too many mistakes" I would like to go to the book and hug him as I want to say: All loose ends tied up tight in the end. Not pretentious at all. Not trying hard to impress. Just plain wonderful storytelling.

First in the series and I will surely be watching out for the rest. Faceless Killers marked the debut appearance of the dyspeptic Ystad detective, Kurt Wallander, and although the Swedish language version was written in , the English translation did not follow until Given that my previous meeting with Wallander came in the form of the final novella of the series, I am struck by how much more gloomy and self-pitying the character seems to be in this first case, noticeably disposed to wallowing.

At forty-two-years old he shouldn't feel as apathetic as he does, but with a separation from his wife, sporadic contact and relations with his daughter, Linda, and with a father characterised by erratic mood changes and almost impossible expectations, he doesn't have much to smile about. A double murder and an ensuing manhunt which soon triggers another murder What greets him is a bloodbath; a scene of such brutal violence that he cannot remember being so appalled previously in his entire career.

With retired farmer Johannes already dead and his wife, Maria, left in a noose and clinging to life, Wallander struggles to comprehend just what can have brought such an act to bear on the remote farmhouse. Neither wealthy or known to keep valuables, surely the brutality speaks of a act of revenge and hatred? Rushing Maria to hospital, a bedside vigil is instituted in the hope that as the only witness she can provide a potential clue to the identity of her attackers. As she draws her final breath she repeats the word "foreign" on several occasions and opens a can of worms that threaten peace and stability across Sweden.

When this detail anonymously finds its way into the public domain, the rebuttal from the police is not enough to stop a series of attacks swiftly being launched at the growing number of camps which hold the illegal immigrant influx. As Wallander himself receives several phone calls threatening retribution and events climax with a immigrant being shot dead, the police come under fire from all angles, all distracting them from the atrocity which unleashed the furore.

For all that this novel does include it is a little lacking in pace and the actual investigation seems more like a vehicle for Mankell to make wider statements on society through the character of Kurt Wallander. The distinct benefit of this is just how realistic the investigation feels as it stalls to eventual deadlock and grinds to a halt on several occasions before a series of seemingly innocuous details picked up through the course of the investigation deliver an eventual resolution over six-months later.

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