Henning Mankell

The Shadow Girls

Übersetzer: Segerberg, Ebba

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Produktbeschreibung

A poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales, an exasperated girlfriend, a demanding mother, and a rapidly fading tan starts an unlikely writing group that requires more of him than he first imagined in this humorous and heartbreaking work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781595581921
• ISBN-10: 1595581928
• Artikelnr.: 35114958

Autorenporträt

Bestselling author Henning Mankell has received numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association's Macallan Gold Dagger and the German Tolerance Prize. His Kurt Wallander mysteries are global bestsellers and have been adapted into the PBS Masterpiece Mystery! series Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh. He divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique. Ebba Segerberg has translated One Step Behind, Firewall, and Before the Frost by Henning Mankell (all available from The New Press) and Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Rezensionen

Mankell writes with both a social conscience and great humour...it is both passionate and entertaining, and a strong indication that the Swedes are not as lugubrious as their crime fiction makes them out to be Sarah Crompton Daily Telegraph