Re: RARA-AVIS: Henning Mankell

From: Karin Montin ( kmontin@sympatico.ca)
Date: 20 Oct 2004


After reading a writeup on Amazon.com, I now know that what's missing is nothing less than humour. Mankell is totally and unrelentlessly grim and humourless. (How could I not have realized before?)

Whereas humour is commonly held to be a redeeming feature of either the noir hero or the noir book. That's what I learned from a panel at Bouchercon.

Karin

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