"He reached the church just before 7 p.m. It was already quite full, but he found a space by one of the side aisles, and watched the people still streaming into the church. . . . .
The sound of the organ shocked him. It was as if the whole church was about to be shattered by the sheer power of the music. Wallander remembered an occasion when, as a child, his father had taken him to a church. The organ music had frightened him so much that he’d burst into tears. Now, recognized something soothing in the music. Bach has no homeland, he thought. His music belongs everywhere. Wallander let the music seep into his consciousness."
From The Dogs of Riga
by Henning Mankell
A Kurt Wallander detective novel
Swedish version: Hundarna i Riga, 1999
English translation 2001
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