I can’t deal with angry people until after I’ve had my morning coffee.
Martinsson fired. Wallander watched Lucia fly back and put his hand up to his shoulder. The gun fell from his hand and landed outside the counter. With a bellow Martinsson yanked himself free of the g...
Could you hold Martinsson’s flashlight for a moment? Wallander said to Hansson.Why?Just do it, please.Martinsson handed Hansson his flashlight. Wallander took a step forward and hit Martinsson in the...
Ya Ru’s father had drowned in the big political tidal wave that Mao had set in motion.
I was enticed like a fly to a pot of honey by something reminiscent of a religious cult offering salvation. We were not urged to commit collective suicide, because the Day of Judgment was nigh, but to...
It is as if families on the run are shattered by something other than just grenades. The flight and fear tears us apart and those parts land in all kinds of places - we don't even know where. But we a...
Wherever battles are waged there are casualties, and death is a common occurrence. But what is closest to our hearts is the best interest of the people and the suffering of the vast majority, and when...
The whole of China was overshadowed by the injustice of the past.
Martinsson had sifted through the tip-offs. Everything that the police learnt was fed into a computer. Then he did a rough sort. The most ridiculous ones never got beyond the print-outs.Hulda Yngveson...
It was a feeling which stayed with him after he got back home to his terrace house on the Kristianstad road. When he had finished his dinner and played with his children for a while, he went out with...
The wife of the dead man had thrown herself down in the mud, and her wails were so piercing that several of the policemen couldn’t tolerate the sound and had moved away. To his surprise, Wallander saw...
He walked out and closed the door. Linda had the feeling that she was imprisoned, not with a lock and key, but by the imposed time limit. She decided to write down what she was going to say in a note-...
Per Wallander la vita era un succedersi di problemi pratici che dovevano essere risolti, allo stesso tempo sapeva di non aveva la capacità di migliorare la propria esistenza o quella di altri con form...
It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.
The forest has been growing for hundreds of years. Each time a child is born, a tree is planted. You could see from his tree how old a person was. The tall and thick tree trunks, which gave the most s...
An African who loses the ability to die with dignity is a lost man.
Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.
In many ways Martinsson was the opposite of Svedberg: he was coming up to 30, born in Trollhättan, and had set his sights early on a police career. As a police officer, Martinsson was impulsive and so...
The westerly wind whines sharp, wild gees cry in the sky, the frosty morning’s moon. Frosty the morning’s moon,Horses’ hooves clatter hard,Stifled the sound of the trumpet. Mao Zedong, 1935
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