Murder, my Swede: Henning Mankell's Scandinavian Noir.(SHOOTING THE PIANO PLAYER)(Critical Essay)
From: Artforum International
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Date: 4/1/2005
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Author: Polito, Robert
Winter had arrived in Skane," Henning Mankell concludes at the finish of his latest police procedural, Before the Frost. The sentence is the meteorological equivalent of Bob Dylan's ominous "It's not dark yet / But it's getting there." Yet when doesn't a polar chill slice through Skane, the southern Swedish farming province ("a Baltic Texas," Mankell suggested to me during a recent interview in New York) that contains the small industrial and resort city of Ystad? That locale is the ...
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