5/22/2023 0 Comments Het graf by Henning MankellHowever, he finds solace in his battery of optical and navigational instruments. With a few deft strokes, Mankell portrays the engineer's background in bourgeois Stockholm in 1914 trapped in a loveless marriage to a minor aristocrat, Lars is tormented by memories of childhood abuse and unable to connect with other people. Typically for Mankell, however, Lars does not murder of his own volition, but is driven to do so by society. It concerns a Swedish naval engineer, Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, who is both a compulsive liar and a serial murderer. Set in the Stockholm archipelago at the outbreak of the first world war, it is, among other things, a landscape novel, bleakly fixed in Baltic geography. Fans of Henning Mankell's lugubrious Nordic detective may be disappointed to learn that Depths is not a Kurt Wallander procedural.
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