A VINTAGE BOOKS ORIGINAL, FEBRUARY 2020
English translation copyright © 2020 by George Goulding
Preface translation copyright © 2020 by George Goulding
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Sweden as Bergsprängaren by Författarförlaget, Stockholm, in 1973. Copyright © 1973 by Henning Mankell. This translation simultaneously published in hardcover in Great Britain by MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus Publishing Ltd, London. Published by agreement with Copenhagen Literary Agency Aps, Copenhagen. Translation sponsored by the Swedish Arts Council.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Vintage Books Trade Paperback ISBN 9780525566168
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