A Bridge to the Stars
- Published
- 1 January 1990
- Pages
- 176
- ISBN-13
- 9781842704394
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Bridge to the Stars, published in Swedish in 1990 (its English translation followed in 2005), opens Henning Mankell's quartet about Joel Gustafson, an eleven-year-old growing up with only his widowed lumberjack father for company in Sweden's far north. At 176 pages it introduces Joel's secret list of things to do before he turns twelve and his intense private friendship with a dog he isn't allowed to keep, themes that carry through the following three books, including Shadows in the Twilight.
Key facts about A Bridge to the Stars
A Bridge to the Stars is a novel by Henning Mankell. Readers have had it since 1990. It runs to 176 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of A Bridge to the Stars. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781842704394 to find the main one.
A Bridge to the Stars is book 1 of 4 in the Joel Gustafson series. The series has 4 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Henning Mankell writes Kurt Wallander and Sofia as separate series. Those series sit on our young adult and nordic noir shelves. Meanwhile, After the Fire is the latest published Henning Mankell book on file, from 2015.
About Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell was a Swedish author widely credited as one of the founding figures of the Scandinavian noir crime wave that reshaped international crime fiction from the 1990s onward. See every Henning Mankell book in order.
Its place in Joel Gustafson
A Bridge to the Stars is book 1 in the Joel Gustafson series. It is followed by Shadows in the Twilight. See the full Joel Gustafson reading order.
Before Kurt Wallander made him internationally famous, Henning Mankell wrote a quartet of novels for younger readers about Joel Gustafson, a boy of eleven growing up in a small town in the far north of Sweden with only his father, a widowed lumberjack, for company. Beginning with A Bridge to the Stars (1990), the books follow Joel through the ordinary, formative texture of a lonely childhood -- keeping a secret list of things he intends to do before he turns twelve, forming an intense private friendship with a…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781842704394