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  1. Henning Mankell _ Before the Frost

    Our ancestors survive somewhere in our faces, she thought. If you look like your mother as a child, you end up as your father when you age. When you no longer recognise your face, it's because an unknown ancestor has taken up residence for a while.
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  2. Henning Mankell _ Before the Frost

    who has always"
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  3. Henning Mankell _ Before the Frost

    Linda grabbed an ashtray from the table and threw it at him, hitting him right above the eyebrow. Blood ran down his face and dripped on Harriet Bolson's file.
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  4. Henning Mankell _ Before the Frost

    Linda recognized the car next to it as Höglund's. Linda fingered the Swiss army knife in her pocket, but this was not a night for slashing tires.
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    You have a good father." She was taken aback.
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  6. Henning Mankell _ Before the Frost

    Don't you understand that this is serious?" she screamed. "Anna is missing!
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  7. Henning Mankell _ Before the Frost

    Mais il ne l'a pas oubliée, il ne l'oubliera jamais, elle était le grand amour de sa vie. Et elle, maintenant, je la retrouve en train de se biturer en plein midi à poil dans sa cuisine. Elle aussi, elle erre dans ce brouillard morose, et moi je n'ai toujours pas réussi à m'en libérer, alors que je vais avoir bientôt trente ans.
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  8. Henning Mankell _ Before the Frost

    Linda lui raconta tout. Il s'était appuyé contre le frigo, les bras croisés. Il est toujours dans cette position quand il écoute. Je m'en souviens depuis toujours. Un géant aux bras croisés qui se dressait devant moi et qui me regardait de tout là-haut. Je pensais que mon papa à moi était comme une montagne. Papa Montagne.
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  9. Henning Mankell _ Before the Frost

    He walked out and closed the door. Linda had the feeling that she was imprisoned, not with a lock and key, but by the imposed time limit. She decided to write down what she was going to say in a note-book, and pulled one across the table towards her. When she flipped it open she was confronted with a bad sketch of a seductively posed naked woman. To her surprise she saw it was Martinsson's notepad. But why should that surprise me? she thought. All the men I know spend an enormous amount of mental energy undressing women in their minds.
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  10. Henning Mankell _ Before the Frost

    Vi brukade prata så när vi var unga, Sten och jag. Om döden som något som man skulle hantera som en part i en duell. Även om utgången var given kunde man trötta ut döden så att den bara hade krafter nog att utdela ett sista hugg. Det var så vi bestämde att döden skulle bli för oss båda, nåt man skulle klara av så "att det gick bra".
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  11. Henning Mankell _ Before the Frost

    The Christian world had become mired in a bog of misconceptions and had tried God's patience.
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  12. Henning Mankell _ Before the Frost

    Someone must lead the way.
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