In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go , this dazzling and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees - and to their children and one another-against the backdrop of an urgent, global crisis.
The first case of Inspector Kurt Wallander. He drinks too much, he works too hard, and he sleeps too little. His life is a shambles. But all of a sudden these are the least of his worries. Wallander is a senior police officer at Ystad, a small town in the wind- lashed Swedish province of Skåne. His wife has left him, his daughter won't speak to him, his ageing father barely tolerates him. Then, at 5 a.m. on a frozen January morning, he responds to a routine call. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death in his isolated farmhouse; his wife is lying barely alive beside him. Wallander has one clue: the killers may have been foreign. When this information is leaked, xenophobia is unleashed in Skåne, and Wallander finds himself in a race against time: solve the crimes or the death toll will rise. --back cover
Salbjorg leży bez ruchu na posłaniu i czeka, aż ludzie wokół posną. Wciąż rozważa w myślach plan, który od tak dawna przygotowywała, wspomina też czarownika, który przekazał jej wiedzę o śmiercionośnej sile roślin. Wreszcie może się uważać za w pełni wykształconą czarownicę! Umie wystarczająco dużo, by wprowadzić w czyn swoje ponure zamiary, nie budząc niczyich podejrzeń...