Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson.
1st North American ed.
New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2010.
365 pages ;
25 cm
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Originally published under title Kinesen : Stockholm : Leopard, 2008.
pt. 1. The silence. The epitaph -- The judge -- pt. 2. The railroad. The way to Canton -- The feather and the stone -- pt. 3. The red ribbon. The rebels -- The Chinese game -- pt. 4. The colonizers. Bark peeled off by elephants -- Chinatown, London.
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Hudiksvall, January 2006, police find eighteen people massacred in a small village. They think it's the work of a mad man but Birgitta and August believe they were killed by the same person who killed their mother.