02050nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100080008308200230009110000270011424500660014126000420020730000240024936500620027352012560033565000440159194200120163599900190164795201660166620220407090848.0220404b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780857059475  cAL  aeng  223a839.7374bMANR  aHenning Mankell927419  aRock BlasterbTranslated  from the Swedish by George Goulding  aLondonbMaclehose Press Quercusc2020  a207p.bPBc20x13cm.  2Generala6320b₹467.22c₹d₹599.00e22%f08/03/2022  aAn 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 idealsHenning 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.  2Germanic literaturesaLiterature928192  2ddccBK  c222163d222163  00102ddc40708MAENGaSACPGbSACPGd2022-03-11eBiblios Book Pointg467.22l1o839.7374 MANRpPG023835r2025-03-14 00:00:00s2025-03-13v599.00w2022-08-03yBK