by Henning Mankell · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483831007
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«El xinès» is the crime novel by Henning Mankell, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (464 pages).
In 2006, a photographer finds nineteen corpses in the Swedish village of Hesjövallen. Judge Birgitta Roslin, whose adoptive family is among the victims, investigates on her own. The clue of a red silk ribbon leads her to a conspiracy linking the Chinese workers of the nineteenth-century American railroad with present-day China.
Original title: Kinesen (2007). Volume 28 of the Ull de Vidre collection. Corine Prize 2008 and San Clemente Prize 2010.
For readers of Nordic crime fiction who enjoy plots with historical and political background.
Henning Georg Mankell was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays for television.
