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    The Rock Blaster

     
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    The Rock Blaster

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    An early gem from the creator of the Kurt Wallander series, charting the life of a principled man through tragedy, heartbreak, true love and the battle for a nation's soul.

    "A very engaging portrait . . . There is a powerful lack of sentimentality to the telling of the story [and] a lovely and genuinely moving love story at the heart of the book." Liam Heylin, Irish Examiner

    At 3 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon in 1911, Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast in an industrial accident. The local newspaper reports him dead, but they are mistaken.

    Because Oskar Johansson is a born survivor.

    Though crippled, Oskar finds the strength to go on living and working. The Rock Blaster charts his long professional life - his hopes and dreams, sorrows and joys. His relationship with the woman whose love saved him, with the labour movement that gave him a cause to believe in, and with his children, who do not share his ideals.

    Henning Mankell's first published novel is steeped in the burning desire for social justice that informed his bestselling crime novels. Remarkably assured for a debut, it is written with scalpel-like precision, at once poetic and insightful in its depiction of a true working-class hero.

    Translated from the Swedish by George Goulding

    Product details

    EAN/ISBN:
    9780857059475
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    240
    Publication date:
    2021-11-11
    Publisher:
    MacLehose Press
    EAN/ISBN:
    9780857059475
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    240
    Publication date:
    2021-11-11
    Publisher:
    MacLehose Press

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