Kurt Wallander · Book 3
The White Lioness
- Published
- 1 January 1993
- Pages
- 440
- ISBN-13
- 9780099450092
- Type
- novel
About this book
The White Lioness precedes The Man Who Smiled in the Kurt Wallander series, published in 1993. Wallander's loneliness and physical decline are never softened as Mankell widens the series' geopolitical reach.
Its place in Kurt Wallander
The White Lioness is book 3 in the Kurt Wallander series. It follows The Dogs of Riga. It is followed by The Man Who Smiled. 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 9780099450092