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Now that he's getting older, Joel Gustafson has a lot to consider. His birthday is next month. He'll be fifteen, and he can't stop thinking about the new liberties that come with being fifteen: he'll be allowed to ride a moped, and he'll no longer need to sneak into the cinema to see an adults-only film. And maybe his father will finally agree to leave their small Swedish town and the two of them will become sailors—something Joel has always dreamed of.
   
Joel's life takes a turn, but nothing like he had anticipated. Joel and his father are unexpectedly faced with an aspect of their past and emotional wounds resurface. Can their relationship survive this complex situation, and the very different ways in which they respond?

As it has in the past, the first snow of the year signifies to Joel Gustafson his very own New Year's Eve. So when the snow begins to fall on a cold November day, Joel gets busy making resolutions--three to be exact. Resolution #1: Live to be at least a hundred. He realizes that this will require toughening himself up by testing his physical limits. Resolution #2: Set his eyes on the sea for the first time. To do this, Joel knows he needs to help sort out his father Samuel's problems and get him back to the life he left behind--being a sailor at sea. Resolution #3: See a naked lady. At almost fourteen, Joel feels he needs to see the world--including females--in an entirely different light.
    
As the winter days pass, life becomes ever more complicated, but Joel is determined to keep his resolutions--for his father, for himself, and for their future.
   
When the Snow Fell follows Joel's journey as he realizes along the way that it will require determination, strength, and valor in order to truly become a young man.

Reclusive surgeon Fredrik Welin's island solitude is disturbed by a visit from a former lover who forces him to confront his past.

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DER MANN, DER LACHELTE - MANKELL HENNING - DTV

JOEL WILL SOON be 12, and he thinks nothing is going on in the small community where he lives. But he’s wrong. One day, an incident that could easily have been a catastrophe turns into a miracle. Now Joel believes he owes the world a good deed, to prove that he deserved what might have been divine intervention. He thinks up an elaborate scheme, but it doesn’t go as anticipated. Even though his heart is in the right place, feelings are hurt. If he confesses what he’s done and why, will things be put right again?
Readers who met Joel Gustafson, his father, and their friends in A Bridge to the Stars will follow, with appreciation, Henning Mankell’s shrewd depiction, in this companion novel, of the surprising changes in Joel’s existence. Mankell deftly explores Joel’s self-discovery, his realization that lives can be altered in a single moment, and his new understanding that a choice between telling the truth and keeping silent can make all the difference.


From the Hardcover edition.

In the aftermath of the 2006 massacre of 19 people in a Swedish village, Judge Birgitta Roslin, a granddaughter of two of the victims, discovers the 19th-century diary of a gang leader that reveals the case's eerie connections to the abuse of Chinese slave workers. Simultaneous --- January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: Her grandparents, the Andréns, are among the victims, and Birgitta soon learns that an Andrén family in Nevada has also been murdered. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andrén ancestor—a gang master on the American transcontinental railway—that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers. The police insist that only a lunatic could have committed the Hesjövallen murders, but Birgitta is determined to uncover what she now suspects is a more complicated truth. The investigation leads to the highest echelons of power in present-day Beijing, and to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But the narrative also takes us back 150 years into the depths of the slave trade between China and the United States—a history that will ensnare Birgitta as she draws ever closer to solving the Hesjövallen murders.

The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Kurt Wallander's beginnings.

Revealing a side of Wallander that we have never seen, the long stories collected in The Pyramid are vintage Mankell. Here, we see Wallander on his homicide first case as a twenty-one-year-old patrolman, as a young father facing unexpected danger on Christmas Eve, as a middle-aged detective with his marriage on the brink, as a newly separated investigator solving the brutal murder of a local photographer, and finally as a veteran detective, with his signature methodical and instinctive work style, discovering unexpected connections between a downed plane and the assassination of a pair of spinster sisters. In these five riveting tales we watch Kurt Wallander come into his own not only as a detective but as a human being

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This poignant novel explores how a unilateral decision can change a life.

Two things are hard for Joel Gustafson to cope with: not knowing why, and not being able to do anything about it. Joel’s father was once a sailor who lived by the sea. Joel’s mother once lived with them. Joel’s father abandoned the sea. Joel’s mother abandoned Joel and his father.

While looking out his window one night, Joel sees a lonely dog on the street. Joel spots the animal again and begins sneaking out night after night, trying to find it. During these nocturnal outings, Joel discovers aspects of life he has never imagined. And then one night he discovers that his father’s bed, too, is empty.

As Joel investigates his father’s mysterious absences and continues to search for the dog, he discovers his own inner strength and learns about adult disappointments and needs.

Chief Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the deaths of three young celebrants after the Midsummer's Eve ritual.

His long-awaited vacation interrupted by two deaths, Inspector Kurt Wallander begins trying to piece together how the brutal murder of a former minister of justice is related to the self-immolation of an unidentified young woman.

Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, rich and poor, The Eye of the Leopard is a stunning novel from a modern master.

Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill the missionary dream of his recently deceased friend Janice. Africa is a complete shock to Olofson, yet he chooses to stay and make it his home, eventually taking control of a small farm. Here, he learns of the fragile truce between the white and black populations of Zambia, and rumors of an underground army of revolutionaries wearing leopard skins alert him that violence may erupt at any moment. As a wealthy white man, he grows increasingly fearful and returns in his mind to the traumatic events that drove him from Sweden, playing back the complicated events of his past, as his present races toward a thrilling climax.

Reclusive surgeon Fredrik Welin's island solitude is disturbed by a visit from a former lover who forces him to confront his past.

Da diversi giorni Henrik Cantor non risponde al telefono. Quando sua madre Louise giunge finalmente al suo appartamento, dopo un viaggio dalla Grecia segnato da una sottile angoscia, trova il cadavere del ragazzo riverso sul letto. Tutte le tracce, a cominciare dai sedativi trovati nel sangue di Henrik, fanno pensare a un suicidio, ed è con questa conclusione che la polizia archivia il caso. Louise, tuttavia, rifiuta di credere che suo figlio si sia tolto la vita: nonostante le ricerche archeologiche di cui si occupa l'abbiano tenuta a lungo lontana dalla Svezia, è convinta che Henrik non avrebbe mai commesso un gesto del genere. Insieme all'ex marito Aron, che aveva abbandonato la famiglia poco dopo la nascita del bambino, comincia così un'indagine sulla vita di Henrik, della quale entrambi capiscono presto non sapere realmente nulla: tra le carte del ragazzo ritrova un minuzioso dossier sulla presunta sparizione del cervello del presidente Kennedy dopo l'attentato di Dallas, testimonianze di innumerevoli viaggi all'estero e un'enigmatica lettera da parte di una fidanzata di cui nessuno dei due conosceva l'esistenza. Louise e Aron si lanceranno così sulle tracce lasciate dal figlio fino all'Africa, scoprendone i legami con il mondo corrotto e spietato creatosi intorno alla tragedia dell'AIDS: affaristi senza scrupoli che commerciano in sangue infetto, ricercatori che compiono esperimenti illegali per trovare un vaccino, contrabbandieri di farmaci retrovirali.

Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) fu il primo a considerare le piante come essere sessuati e quindi a classificarle di conseguenza. Lavorando con la sua collezione di oltre 20000 esemplari prese da tutto il mondo, Linnaeus raggruppò le piante secondo il loro calendario di fioritura e la tipologia di organi atti alla proliferazione delineando una sorta di parallelismo fra gli organi delle piante e quelli umani. Edvard Koinberg fotografo svedese del 1964 ha ripreso questo punto di vista per realizzare la sua raccolta fotografica. Egli infatti ha creato una sorta di erbario fotografico basato sulla sensualità che anche i fiori possono esprimere. Queste sono le foto che anche Linnaeus avrebbe potuto fare se solo avesse avuto i mezzi tecnici.

In una fredda giornata di gennaio, la polizia di Hudiksvall, nella Svezia centrale, scopre un orribile massacro: in un villaggio vicino alla foresta, diciannove persone sono state trucidate. Sembra il gesto di un folle. Quando a Helsingborg il magistrato Birgitta Roslin legge della strage, si rende conto che tra le vittime ci sono persone a lei molto vicine, e decide di occuparsi del caso. Il ritrovamento di un nastro di seta rossa la porta a Pechino, dove la scoperta di un diario la trascinerà indietro nel tempo, svelandole una terribile storia di schiavitù e soprusi. Coinvolta in un diabolico gioco politico, Birgitta dovrà confrontarsi con la brutalità del capitalismo selvaggio e dei nuovi potenti nella Cina di oggi, pronti a rivendicare il loro posto sulla scena internazionale.