Henning Mankell
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| Title | : | The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander #2) |
| Author | : | Henning Mankell |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 326 pages |
| Published | : | April 13th 2004 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard (first published April 1992) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Crime. Fiction. Thriller. Cultural. Sweden. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature |
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Second in the Kurt Wallander series.Sweden, winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead. The dead men were criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect. Wallander travels across the Baltic Sea, to Riga in Latvia, where he is plunged into a frozen, alien world of police surveillance, scarcely veiled threats, and lies. Doomed always to be one step behind the shadowy figures he pursues, only Wallander's obstinate desire to see that justice is done brings the truth to light.
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| Original Title: | Hundarna i Riga |
| ISBN: | 1400031524 (ISBN13: 9781400031528) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Kurt Wallander #2, Wallander #3 |
| Characters: | Kurt Wallander, Baiba Liepa |
| Setting: | Sweden Latvia Riga(Latvia) …more Ystad, Skåne(Sweden) …less |
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Somehow this novel about the Russo-Latvian mafia, the titular "dogs," does not seem particularly realistic or convincing. Kurt Wallander, a Swedish small-town policeman finds himself in Riga, lost amidst the maze of the recent (well, 1991 to be exact) Russo-Baltic political tensions, as Latvia is undergoing the birth pangs of autonomy from the now-crumbling Soviet bloc. Wallander himself acknowledges that he knows very little of the historical and political background leading up to thisNot a very good book, I'm sorry to say. The plot is rather thin, and anything that could have added any literary quality to the story is lacking: no intricate metaphors to contemplate, no depth of character whatsoever, no nicely crafted prose. Most annoying, however, is the author's complete and utter ignorance about the city that features so prominently in his book: the descriptions of the city of Riga are totally inadequate. In 1991, when the action takes place, Riga's television tower had
Henning Mankell believes that a mystery involves more than merely intriguing plots but must function as a social critique of society and a deepening of the existential questions. At least that is what he has written in his official website. http://www.henningmankell.com/Author/...Many of the themes of The Dogs of Riga are applicable to most countries going through social transition; there are dogs in every instance. Dogs as recurrent symbols in the book are emblematic of the collective, blind
Detective Kurt Wallander of the Ystad police in Sweden has an unusual case...a life raft washes ashore with 2 executed men in it....from where? Who are they? Why were they killed. The investigation involves a detective from the Latvian police being sent over to liaise when its discovered the boat must've originated in the Baltic region.The case is seemingly transferred to the Latvian authorities, and Wallander bids adieu to the detective and the case.A few days later, he's informed that the
Once upon a time I heard tell of a poet who always travelled with the same three books: the Bible, Don Quixote and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. It was probably a symbolist poet now that I come to think of it (view spoiler)[ perhaps it was Alexander Blok, or Andrei Bely or just somebody like that (hide spoiler)]. Although I approve of travelling with a book or two - I'll admit to being a bigamist reader - as a rule I prefer a little more variety even if this does require prolonged dithering in
Somewhere along the line, the idea of picking up the Wallander books was planted in my head; months later, this seedling sprouted as a full-on impulse to buy a used copy of the second book. What about the first? Who needs it, I figured, let's get on with starting this series!I was immediately attracted to Wallander's moodiness and Mankell's fantastic prose (yes: in translation, but until I learn Swedish, translations are what I've got). I was surprised when this story jumped out of Sweden into
Swedish detective Kurt Wallander is plunged into another depressing mystery when two bodies wash ashore on the Swedish coast in a life raft. The two male victims have been shot to death and then wrapped in an embrace in the lifeboat and cast adrift. They are carrying no identification, but their dental work suggests that they are from somewhere in Eastern Europe.The victims are finally traced to Latvia and a police official from Riga named Major Liepa comes to Sweden to participate in the
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