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The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Kurt Wallander's beginnings.
Revealing a side of Wallander that we have never seen, the long stories collected in The Pyramid are vintage Mankell. Here, we see Wallander on his homicide first case as a twenty-one-year-old patrolman, as a young father facing unexpected danger on Christmas Eve, as a middle-aged detective with his marriage on the brink, as a newly separated investigator solving the brutal murder of a local photographer, and finally as a veteran detective, with his signature methodical and instinctive work style, discovering unexpected connections between a downed plane and the assassination of a pair of spinster sisters. In these five riveting tales we watch Kurt Wallander come into his own not only as a detective but as a human being
- Sales Rank: #28357 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Vintage
- Published on: 2009-10-06
- Released on: 2009-10-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.98" h x .87" w x 5.15" l, .69 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 416 pages
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"A marvel of spare, purposeful prose and artful storytelling."--St. Petersburg Times
"Excellent. . . . Sure to bring [Mankell's] fans stampeding back into the fold."--The New York Times
“Absorbing, chilling, and dripping with evil atmosphere.”–The Times, London
“Superb. . . .Mankell has mastered his craft."--Tampa Bay Tribune
“A triumph. . . . Mankell’s quiet specificity is mesmerizing. . . . They are surprising small masterpieces.”–Times Literary Supplement, London
“No crime writer balances genre conventions with personal concerns as well as Mankell.”–Boston Globe
“Kurt Wallander remains one of the most impressive and credible creations of crime fiction today.” –The Guardian, London
“This book is Mankell in top form. . . . For Mankell/Wallander fans [it is] a must read.”–The Midwest Review
“The Wallander series . . . [is] essential reading for all crime fiction fans, and this collection adds an indispensable chapter to the saga.”–Booklist
About the Author
Internationally bestselling novelist and playwright Henning Mankell has received the German Tolerance Prize and the U.K.’s Golden Dagger Award and has been nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize three times. His Kurt Wallander mysteries have been published in thirty-three countries and consistently top the bestseller lists in Europe. He divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he has worked as the director of Teatro Avenida since 1985.
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FOREWORD
It was only after I had written the eighth and final installment in the series about Kurt Wallander that I thought of the subtitle I had always sought but never found. When everything, or at least most of it, was over I understood that the subtitle naturally had to be "Novels about the Swedish Anxiety."
But of course I arrived too late at this insight. And this despite the fact that the books have always been variations on a single theme: "What is happening to the Swedish welfare state in the 1990s? How will democracy survive if the foundation of the welfare state is no longer intact? Is the price of Swedish democracy today too high and no longer worth paying?"
And it is precisely these questions that have also been the subject of the majority of the letters I have received. Many readers have had wise thoughts to share. Indeed I feel confirmed in my impression that Wallander has in a way served as a kind of mouthpiece for growing insecurity, anger, and healthy insights about the relationship between the welfare state and democracy. There have been thick letters and slender postcards from places around the world that I have never heard of, telephone calls that have reached me at odd hours, agitated voices that have spoken to me via e-mail.
Beyond these matters of the welfare state and democracy, I have also been asked other questions. Some of them have been in regards to inconsistencies that many readers have gleefully discovered. In almost all cases in which readers have brought "errors" to light, they have been correct. (And let me immediately add that new inconsistencies will be discovered even in this volume. Let me simply say that what appears in this volume is what should stand. Let no shadow fall upon any editor. I could not have had a better one than Eva Stenberg.)
But most of the letters have posed the following question: what happened to Wallander before the series began? Everything, to set an exact date, before January 8, 1990. The early winter morning when Wallander is awakened in his bed by a telephone call, the beginning of Faceless Killers. I have a great sympathy for the fact that people wonder how it all began. When Wallander appeared on the scene he was forty-two, going on forty-three. But by then he had been a policeman for many years, he had been married and divorced, had a child, and, once upon a time, had left Malmö for Ystad.
Readers have wondered. And naturally I have also sometimes wondered. During these past nine years I have sometimes cleaned out drawers, dug through dusty piles of paper, or searched among the ones and zeroes of diskettes.
Several years ago, right after I was done with the fifth book, Sidetracked, I realized that I had started to write stories in my head that took place long before the start of the series. Again, this magical date, January 8, 1990.
Now I have gathered these stories. Some have already been published in newspapers. Those I have gone over lightly. Some chronological errors and dead words have been excised. Two of the stories have never been published before.
But I am not publishing these stories now to clean out my desk. I am publishing this volume because it forms an exclamation mark to the period I wrote last year. In the manner of the crab, it can sometimes be good to go backward. To a beginning. The time before January 8, 1990.
No picture will ever be complete. But I do think these pieces should be part of it.
The rest is, and remains, silence.
Henning Mankell
January 1999
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Stronger on character, weaker on plot
By St. Louis Book Lover
I'm an odd duck when it comes to mysteries. I'd rather read a mystery where the writer has done tons of work to develop a credible, complex, rich character than a book where the author has built an intricate plot but neglected character. With that preface, I'll admit that I liked these five Kurt Wallender stories a good deal.
Wallender is a likable, and mildly conflicted, guy. We see him age twenty years over the course of these stories, and the reader can't help notice, by the end of the book, that Wallender is suffering middle-age angst, accompanied by doubts about the future of Swedish culture in a world of increasing drug traffic and violence. The character of Kurt Wallender is the best reason for picking this book up, along with interest in northern European culture and day-to-day life. Indeed, these stories are full of Wallender's daily living (e.g., the man has to sign up to do his laundry in his building's only washing machine; remembering to buy toilet paper in the course of a busy investigation is another minor challenge). There's plenty of realism here, and I like that; Wallender and his police work end up seeming real. He's not a super hero.
My one complaint, though, is that the stories frequently seem hurried (perhaps evenly poorly thought out) in their conclusions. Wallender faces physical violence, sometimes almost out of the blue, in the last page or two, followed by a quick explanation of who committed the crime and why. (The worst example of this is found in the final pages of "The Death of the Photographer," where Wallender briefs his police colleagues on how the crime was committed and what motivated the perpetrator. The scene is all too reminiscent of cozy mysteries where the detective shares his wisdom at the very end of the story. An odd way to end a story that is, like the other stories in the book, otherwise a police procedural.)
If you're looking for suspenseful plotting, this might not be the best choice. If, on the other hand, you want to live for a while in the mind of a low-key, hard-working Swedish cop, and you enjoy a book that is strong on atmosphere and setting, you will likely want to pour yourself a good cup of coffee and dig into this collection. (For my part, I plan to pick up Faceless Killers, Mankell's first Wallender novel, in the next week or two.)
25 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
An excellent introduction to Kurt Wallander detective novels
By Israel Drazin
Following the phenomenal success of the late Swedish writer Stieg Larsson's three novels, a groundswell of interest rose to read other Swedish crime fiction. Many turned to Hemming Mankell, already successful in selling his Kurt Wallander detective thrillers and the TV movies based on some of them.
Mankell's Wallander crime books were first published in Sweden in 1991 and in English in 1997. His first volume involved a Wallander case in 1990 when Wallander was a senior detective 42 years old. After completing eight full-length Wallander novels, and after receiving requests from his readers, Mankell decided to write short stories telling the early tales of his detective. These five stories were collected in The Pyramid.
The first, Wallander's First Case, begins in 1969 when Wallander is twenty. He takes a job as a patrolman against the strong mocking objections of his eccentric father. He wants to be a detective. He works hard and spends hours learning the ropes to impress his superiors. He has a girl friend who constantly criticizes him for being late, even though she knows that he is late because of his job. He lives in an apartment with thin walls and hears a gun shot. He is told by the detectives that his neighbor committed suicide. He feels that he must investigate to find out what really occurred even though the detective in charge insists that he not do so. Readers read asking themselves many questions. Will his actions stymie his goal to be a detective? Will he solve the case? What strange people will he encounter? Why do people dislike patrolmen? Why is he stabbed?
The second story is The Man with the Mask. It is 1975. Wallander is now a detective and married to his girl friend. She is still complaining that he is always late. When he is leaving to go home, his superior sends him to a store to investigate whether a woman who called the police saying that there is a strange man outside her store is in danger. Wallander finds the woman dead. He is hit on the head and tied up. When he regains consciousness, he sees a man with a hood holding a gun. Why is the man there? Why did he kill the woman? Does he want to kill the detective? How can Wallendar save himself?
The Man on the Beach is the third tale. It is 1987. Wallander is having serious problems with his wife. He expects a divorce. A man takes a taxi from a beach back to town. When the ride is over, the driver discovers that the man is dead. The coroner says he died of poison. When was it administered? Why? Who did it? Why was the man at the beach?
The Death of a Photographer, the fourth story, occurs in 1988 when Wallendar is forty. A photographer, who was estranged from his wife for twenty years, although both lived in the same house, is clubbed to death. He had taken pictures of prominent people, mostly politicians, and distorted them, making the faces recognizable but ugly. One picture is of Wallendar who is revolted at what he sees. Why did the photographer do this? Is he crazy? Why did he garble Wallander's face? Are the distortions related to his murder?
The Pyramid is the longest of the five tales. It is 1989. Wallendar is divorced. He is involved in a case of a small plane crash where two smugglers are killed. Later more people are killed, including two erasable spinster women who run a small sowing shop but have millions in the bank and in stocks. Is there more than one crime? Can Wallendar solve everything?
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
If you're going to read the Kurt Wallender series, read this one first
By Mike in Glen Head, NY
It's usually a good idea to read a mystery series in order so that you can follow the development of the detective's character throughout his or her career. In most cases you can read a series in order by publication date. However, in Henning Mankell's ten book Kurt Wallender series, "The Pyramid, which is the ninth book published, is chronologically the first book in the series. As Mankell explains in the forward, "When Wallender appeared on the scene ... he had been a policeman for many years ... Readers have wondered." And so, Mankell decided to publish "The Pyramid", which consists of three short novels and two short stories, to give us the background that we were missing.
In the first story, Wallender is a twenty-one-year rookie cop who finds his next door neighbor dead, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He's not convinced that the man committed suicide and investigates on his own, showing the perseverance and insight that will eventually lead him to become a detective.
The next exciting story takes place a few years later. Wallendar, now a detective, confronts a robber who has murdered a store owner on Christmas Eve. With the killer pointing a gun at him, Wallender must stay alive by keeping the killer talking until help arrives.
In the third story, a taxi driver finds that his passenger has died in the back seat of his cab. It first appears that the man had a heart attack, but it turns out that he was poisoned. Wallender investigates to find out where the victim was coming from and why he was murdered.
The next story is about a photographer who has been found beaten to death in his studio. Wallender finds a strange album, where the photographer has created distorted images of politicians and other leaders. Could this have something to do with his murder?
In the last story, a plane, which is flying low at night to avoid radar, drops something onto a remote field. A short time later, the plane crashes, killing both smugglers. Then two spinster sisters who own a button store are murdered and it turns out that they were somehow immensely wealthy. When a drug dealer is found shot and the bullet matches the bullets that killed sisters, Wallender has to connect all these people and events together to solve the puzzle. Then, in the middle of the investigation, he has to fly to Egypt to rescue his father who has been arrested for illegally attempting to climb a pyramid.
Throughout the stories, Mankell fills in a lot of other background that readers had been asking for. We meet Wallender's wife, Mona, his daughter, Linda, and see him divorced. We learn about his relationship with his father and his attitude towards Swedish society. Now that I have this background, I look forward to reading the first published book in the series, "Faceless Killers".
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