About this book
"The Rock Blaster," published in 1973, is the earliest entry in Henning Mankell's standalone bibliography, a compact 192 pages. Written when Mankell was 25, it follows a Swedish quarry worker maimed in a workplace accident, and went untranslated into English for nearly five decades until a 2021 edition finally introduced it to English-language readers.
Key facts about The Rock Blaster
Henning Mankell wrote The Rock Blaster, a book on our list. It has been out since 1973. The book has 192 pages.
We list 1 edition of this book. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780857059475 to find the main one.
Henning Mankell has 31 books on our list. 18 of them belong to a series, while 13 stand alone. All 31 are out now. Other books by Henning Mankell on file include A Treacherous Paradise (2011), The Troubled Man (2009), The Man from Beijing (2007) and Italian Shoes (2006).
After it came A Bridge to the Stars in 1990. Since then, our list has added 30 more books by Henning Mankell.
Henning Mankell has 3 series on file, such as Joel Gustafson, Kurt Wallander and Sofia. 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.
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780857059475