Kurt Wallander · Book 10
An Event in Autumn
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 176
- ISBN-13
- 9780345808509
- Type
- novella
About this book
An Event in Autumn, running 176 pages, was published in 2004 as a short novella in the Kurt Wallander series -- originally written for a Dutch book-week promotion. It sits outside the main numbered run but keeps Mankell's melancholy, socially engaged tone intact.
Its place in Kurt Wallander
An Event in Autumn is book 10 in the Kurt Wallander series. It follows The Pyramid. It is followed by The Troubled Man. See the full Kurt Wallander reading order.
Kurt Wallander is a middle-aged detective in the small Swedish town of Ystad, and Henning Mankell built him, deliberately, as the anti-hero of the genre he helped invent: overweight, diabetic, divorced, depressive, and quietly appalled by the racism and social fracture he sees creeping into a Sweden he no longer fully recognises. Mankell used each investigation -- into organised crime, far-right violence, trafficking, political conspiracy -- as a lens on late-20th-century Swedish anxiety about immigration, the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345808509