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Although Many Of His Other Novels Are Brilliant There Is A Power In 'oliver Twist' That I Believe Dickens Never Managed To Retrieve. It Is As If He Was Sent To This Earth With The Sole Purpose Of Writing This Book.

I Can Still Remember. I Was Ill, And I Was Seven, And My Father Didn't Want Me To Just Read Children's Books. He Came With Conan Doyle. I Tried, And I Liked It. I Think The First I Read Was 'the Sign Of The Four'; 'study In Scarlet' Was The Next One. Then I Guess I Stayed Home A Few Extra Days From School To Read.

I Think My Wallander Stories Give A Fairly Good Image Of The World In The 1990s. I Don't Regret Anything About That - On The Contrary!

People Always Leave Traces. No Person Is Without A Shadow.

Our Exile Organizations Have Been Our Way Of Replacing The Cities And Villages We Have Lost.