The Man on the Balcony (The Martin Beck series, Book 3) (A Martin Beck Novel) - Tapa blanda

Sjöwall, Maj

 
9780007439133: The Man on the Balcony (The Martin Beck series, Book 3) (A Martin Beck Novel)
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ISBN 10: 000743913X ISBN 13: 9780007439133
Editorial: Fourth Estate, 2011

Sinopsis

The third book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s – the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing.

Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck series were the original Scandinavian crime novels and have inspired the writings of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo.

Written in the 1960s, 10 books completed in 10 years, they are the work of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö – a husband and wife team from Sweden. They follow the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck, whose enigmatic, taciturn character has inspired countless other policemen in crime fiction; without his creation Ian Rankin’s John Rebus or Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander may never have been conceived. The novels can be read separately, but are best read in chronological order, so the reader can follow the characters’ development and get drawn into the series as a whole.

‘The Man on the Balcony’ balances the most inhuman of crimes with the humanity of the men who must solve it – resulting in a police procedural that is as moving and credible as it is enthralling.

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Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, both left-wing journalists and politically radical, met in 1961 while working for magazines published by the same company. They married the next year and together created the Martin Beck crime series, famously writing alternate chapters at night after putting their children to bed. Wahloo died at the age of 49 just as their 10th book was going to press. Sjowall currently lives in Sweden and continues to work as a writer and translator.



Per Wahlöö was born in Göteborg. After graduating from the University of Lund in 1946, he worked as a journalist, covering criminal and social issues for a number of newspapers and magazines. In the 1950s Wahlöö was engaged in radical political causes, activities that resulted in his deportation from Franco's Spain in 1957. After returning to Sweden, he wrote a number of television and radio plays, and was managing editor of several magazines, before becoming a full-time writer.

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Editorial
Fourth Estate
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
000743913X
ISBN 13 
9780007439133
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Número de páginas
256
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780307390479: The Man on the Balcony: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (3) (Martin Beck Police Mystery Series)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0307390470 ISBN 13:  9780307390479
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009
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