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A gloomy detective stirs up Sweden
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Sarah Lyall
International Herald Tribune
11-19-2003
Beneath its apparently ordered surface, Henning Mankell's Sweden is a place of dark crimes and vicious psychopaths, of fractured families and a fraying society. It is the sort of place where a government official could plausibly be assassinated in broad daylight, as happened in September, when Anna Lindh, the ebullient foreign minister, was stabbed as she shopped in downtown Stockholm.While the killing brought much talk about Sweden's loss of innocence, Mankell feels that it had little innocence left to lose. ''I believe that Sweden is in ...
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