The Man Who Smiled
- Published
- 1 January 1994
- Pages
- 582
- ISBN-13
- 9780307400918
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Man Who Smiled, published in 1994, is the fourth Kurt Wallander novel. Mankell keeps developing Wallander's relationship with his father and daughter Linda alongside the case, part of the continuous character arc that runs across the whole series.
Key facts about The Man Who Smiled
The Man Who Smiled is a novel by Henning Mankell. Readers have had it since 1994. It runs to 582 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Man Who Smiled. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780307400918 to find the main one.
The Man Who Smiled is book 4 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
The Man Who Smiled is book 4 in the Kurt Wallander series. It follows The White Lioness. It is followed by Sidetracked. 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 9780307400918