Kurt Wallander · Book 4
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.
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