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January 5, 2004

Life

That Monocultural Thing

by Doug Merrill

So there we were in the corner Italian restaurant — not staffed by Italians mind you, though maybe the cook is, but by Hungarians and Croatians — wondering why Swedish mystery writers (crime novelists, to some) are so big in Germany, and so much better than most German practitioners of the genre.

Not that we figured it out, any more than we solved the riddle of Lawrence Norfolk’s popularity here.

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2 Responses
  1. David Weman Says:
    January 5th, 2004 at 10:26 pm

    I haven’t read more than a couple of pages of Mankell, but I loathe him all the same.

  2. Gawain Says:
    January 6th, 2004 at 8:35 am

    Made it into the Danish - was that Pomeranian marshes with the Rhino and got bogged down, but the Dictionary is splendid

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