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Tuesday 9 October 2018

The Return of the Dancing Master - Henning Mankell

Reads like an earlier novel, a not quite crystallized version of his style and characters, but still interesting.  The focal issue in this novel is latent fascism and nazism in modern Swedish society.  During WW2,  there was a strong nazi/fascist movement in Sweden, and quite a few Swedes joined the Nazis to fight in the war.  (Like Finland, part of the motivation was also fear of being swallowed up by Russia.)

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