This detective novel by Henning Mankell, written in 1993 but only translated in France in 2004, is probably the one I preferred. The Prologue is located in South Africa in 1918. Three young men, all South African, that is to say, descendants of early Dutch settlers in South Africa, find themselves in a bar Johannesgourg.
They decided to strike a major blow to the Boers regained their dominant position in the country, they lost with the arrival of the English, and who made war on, and they lost. Then
is Ystadt, Sweden, the first chapter ... We find the Inspector Wallander, struggling with a difficult investigation, where a woman has disappeared without history, without a trace. After searching long and discouraging, a team of police is found in a well in the countryside, not far from a farm burned recently.
Near the well, a finger lying on the ground ... a finger BLACK!
What does a black cut finger in a farmyard in Sweden?
Wallander will investigate at length and in parallel we will take a pan of hispanic in South Africa just after the release of Nelson Mandella.
This novel is exciting, and there are a fascination and love Mankell feels for this mysterious continent where he lives most of the year. This confirms my
Mankell if need be in my immoderate taste for this author.
Odile
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