The Return of the Dancing Master (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Henning Mankell
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1999-2000
- Setting: Germany, Sweden, Scotland, and Argentina
- Principal Characters: Stefan Lindman, Elena, Giuseppe Larsson, Herbert Molin, Veronica Molin, Aron Silberstein
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature, Translation
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Police, Twentieth century, Cancer, Detectives, Revenge, Sick persons, Nazism or Nazis, Sweden or Swedish people
- Locales: Germany, Argentina, Sweden, Scotland
Post-World War II Sweden has long been heralded by the cognoscenti as a model of democratic progress. In the left-leaning 1960's and 1970's its quasi-socialist, equalitarian reforms were celebrated in countless press reports conferring upon Sweden near utopian status for its minuscule crime rates (in comparison to other Western democracies); its cradle-to-the-grave health care and welfare system; its tolerant sexual mores (on American television, at any rate, where beautiful, muscular Swedish girls seemed to view uninhibited sex as a sort of hygienic exercise); and its...
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