Kurt Wallander · Book 11
The Troubled Man
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9780307398833
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Troubled Man arrived five years after An Event in Autumn, continuing -- and deliberately concluding -- the Kurt Wallander series in 2009. Mankell wrote it as the character's final case, closing out the run that established the template for the Scandinavian noir genre.
Its place in Kurt Wallander
The Troubled Man is book 11 in the Kurt Wallander series. It follows An Event in Autumn. 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 9780307398833