Henning Mankell

How does ‘Secrets in the Fire’ show personal strength and courage? ‘Secrets in the Fire’ written by Henning Mankell and translated by Connie Stuksrud, is a story about a young girl named Sofia who goes through many struggles and shows how she can cope and deal with those situations. The book gives examples of personal strength and courage by having the characters be persistent, having Sofia cope with her struggles, having characters encourage the protagonists, etc. This will focus on the three examples mentioned and they will be explained in more detail. One example of personal strength is Sofia being persistent and not giving up on living the ‘normal’ life, like how everyone else is expected to live. After the attack in Sofia’s old village,…

Kurt Wallander is the lead character in the Kurt Wallander series of novels created by Swedish crime author Henning Georg Mankell. Mankell published the first novel in the series Faceless Killers in 1991 before he went on to publish nine more titles culminating in the 2010 published The Troubled Man. Kurt Wallander is a small town detective working in the coastal town of Ystad in Sweden. He is a very dedicated cop who has a knack for getting the smallest but most important of details from any…

At about three-fourths of the way through the book, you will undoubtedly be tempted to skip the "personal life interlude" chapter so you can proceed with trying to figure out the mystery. I understand the need to have the personal life of the detective present. Henning Mankell or Jo Nesbo show how good writers slip personal life points and sub-plots into police procedurals and mysteries so they don't jump out at you ala Monty Python's "And now for something completely different...." Thus my…