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.
Key facts about An Event in Autumn
Henning Mankell wrote An Event in Autumn, a novella on our list. It has been out since 2004. The book has 176 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novella. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780345808509 to find the main one.
An Event in Autumn is book 10 of 11 in the Kurt Wallander series. The series has 11 published books. However, the series starts with Faceless Killers (1991).
Additionally, Henning Mankell writes Joel Gustafson 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 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