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050	0	0	_aPT9876.23.A49 _bK5613 2010
082	0		_aMYS MAN _2
100	1		_aMankell, Henning _d(1948-2015)
245	1	4	_aThe man from Beijing _c/ Henning Mankell
260			_aNew York _b: Vintage Books _c, 2010.
300			_a455 p. _c; 20 cm.
520			_aIn the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: Her grandparents, the Andréns, are among the victims, and Birgitta soon learns that an Andrén family in Nevada has also been murdered. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andrén ancestor - a gang master on the American transcontinental railway - that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers. The police insist that only a lunatic could have committed the Hesjövallen murders, but Birgitta is determined to uncover what she now suspects is a more complicated truth. The investigation leads to the highest echelons of power in present-day Beijing, and to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But the narrative also takes us back 150 years into the depths of the slave trade between China and the United States - a history that will ensnare Birgitta as she draws ever closer to solving the Hesjövallen murders.
546			_aTranslated from the Swedish to English
650		4	_aMurder _z-Sweden _v--Fiction
650		4	_aWallander, Kurt (Fictitious character) _x-Fiction
651		4	_aSweden-- _vFiction
655		4	_aDetective and mystery stories _x-Fiction
700	1		_aThompson, Laurie, 1938-2015
942			_cMO
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