Kurt Wallander · Book 5
Sidetracked
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN-13
- 9781595586162
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sidetracked, book five of the Kurt Wallander series, appeared in 1995. Mankell keeps the mystery functioning as serious commentary on Swedish society rather than pure puzzle-plotting, the same melancholy procedural mode that made him the writer credited with founding Scandinavian noir.
Its place in Kurt Wallander
Sidetracked is book 5 in the Kurt Wallander series. It follows The Man Who Smiled. It is followed by The Fifth Woman. 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 9781595586162