Suddenly he realizes that he’s looking at the kitchen window of the neighbor’s house. A retired crippled farmer’s day is long and dreary enough as it is.
So I can lie down under the quilt for a little while longer. Whinny in your stall so I know that everything’s normal. He looks at the neighbor’s house, squinting, trying to penetrate the darkness of the winter night.
In our lives, love has always been something totally different. Someone who has been a farmer for over forty years, who has stood bowed over the heavy Scanian clay, and does not use the word love when he talks about his wife. But he shields himself from his own thought. Don’t stand there freezing, you’ll catch cold. That’s where the mare stands in her stall, and that’s where she suddenly whinnies uneasily at night. The stable in the corner against the farmhouse has a pale yellow lamp above the black stable door. He squints his eyes toward the neighboring farm where the Lövgrens live. The lamp outside the kitchen door casts its glow across the yard, the bare chestnut tree, and the fields beyond. It’s the eighth of January, 1990, and no snow has fallen in Skåne this winter. Every morning when I wake up I’m surprised all over again that I’m seventy years old. He can feel his left knee aching as he walks across the wooden floor to the window. It’s also the only bed they’ll ever have in their lives. It was the only piece of furniture they bought when they got married. I hear it without waking up, and in my subconscious I know that I can keep on sleeping.Ĭarefully he gets out of the creaky bed. With his fingertips he can feel that she’s warm. Something is no longer the way it usually is.Ĭarefully he gropes with one hand until he touches his wife’s face. He listens to the darkness and suddenly he is wide awake. The hands glow and point at quarter to five. He looks at the clock on the table next to the bed. Daybreak will reveal that one of us has been left all alone. One of these mornings she’ll be lying dead beside me and I won’t even notice, he thinks. His wife’s breathing at his side is so faint that he can hardly hear it. He lies still in the darkness and listens. Then I would have been all sweaty, as if I had suffered through a fever during the night. A well that reveals nothing of its contents.Īt least I didn’t dream about the bulls, he thinks. He has forgotten something, he knows that for sure when he wakes up.
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Winner of the Sweden’s Best Mystery Award and the first installment in the series that inspired the PBS program Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh, Faceless Killers is a razor-sharp, stylishly dark police procedural with searing social commentary that reaches beyond its genre to produce “a superior novel-and a harbinger of great things to come” ( Booklist). Tenacious and levelheaded in his sleuthing, he and his colleagues must contend with a wave of violent xenophobia as they search for the killers. His family is falling apart, he’s gaining weight, and he drinks too much and sleeps too little. In charge of the investigation is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a local detective whose personal life is in a shambles. The only clue is the single word she utters before she dies: “foreign.” OL158674W Page_number_confidence 96.75 Pages 310 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.12 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210507141222 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 343 Scandate 20210430085407 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780099571827 Tts_version 4.A #1 international bestseller: This “exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth” launched the acclaimed Wallander Mysteries and BBC series starring Kenneth Branagh ( Los Angeles Times).Įarly one morning, a small-town farmer discovers that his neighbors have been victims of a brutal attack during the night: An old man has been bludgeoned to death, and his tortured wife lies dying before the farmer’s eyes. OL28475526M Openlibrary_subject openlibrary_staff_picks Openlibrary_work Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:00:48 Boxid IA40109801 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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