Henning Mankell
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Cold and poverty define Hanna Renstrom's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1905, at nineteen, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life. But none of her hopes--or fears--prepares her for the life she will lead. After two brief marriages, she finds herself a widow twice over, and the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white supremacy rule, where she is isolated within society by her...
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (280 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
The overdose: A white car is parked by a side road in the beautiful landscape of Scania in southern Sweden. A child sits alone without an adult in sight. The child's father has been reported as missing, while the mother is in a psychiatric institution, unresponsive and apathetic. Kurt Wallander's failing health sees Linda take the lead in the case. It will touch her deeply as she discovers that the child has been unscrupulously tricked, exploited...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (1170 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 collector's booklet ([16] p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
Swedish
Description
Wallander follows the titular chief inspector Kurt Wallander ... as he investigates crimes and solves mysteries in the deceptively dark underbelly of picturesque modern Sweden--Container.