The Man from Beijing (Signed First Edition)

Henning Mankell

ISBN 10: 0307271862 / ISBN 13: 9780307271860

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2010

About this Item

New York: Knopf [2010]. First edition. Hardbound. New/New. A pristine unread copy, very fine in all respects. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. Shipped in sturdy box. Smoke-free shop. Purchased new and opneed only for author to sign. Laurie Thompson (Translator). According to the Los Angeles Times: This stand-alone thriller just might "cement Mankell's reputation as Sweden's greatest living mystery writer." The book quickly went through multiple printings. This is the first printing. 0.0.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Man from Beijing (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307271862
• ISBN 13: 9780307271860
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Scandanavian Mysteries

About this title

Synopsis

The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.

January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene.

Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: Her grandparents, the Andréns, are among the victims, and Birgitta soon learns that an Andrén family in Nevada has also been murdered. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andrén ancestor—a gang master on the American transcontinental railway—that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers. The police insist that only a lunatic could have committed the Hesjövallen murders, but Birgitta is determined to uncover what she now suspects is a more complicated truth.

The investigation leads to the highest echelons of power in present-day Beijing, and to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But the narrative also takes us back 150 years into the depths of the slave trade between China and the United States—a history that will ensnare Birgitta as she draws ever closer to solving the Hesjövallen murders.

About the Author

Henning Mankell is the prizewinning author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, which were adapted into a PBS television series starring Kenneth Branagh. His novels have been translated into forty languages and have sold thirty million copies worldwide. He is the first winner of the Ripper Award (the new European Crime Fiction Star Award) and has also received the Glass Key and Golden Dagger awards. He divides his time between Sweden and Mozambique.