See search results for this author. Available. He wrote a manuscript, he sold all his possessions in Sweden and moved to a small town by Lake Lugano in Switzerland, only a few meters from the Italian border.After a long career as a journalist, media consultant and television producer, Jonas Jonasson decided to start a new life. chat tools) that might be of interest to you. Oh and Nombeko also made it to Sweden with a nuclear bomb that also does not officially exist.Second novel is rarely as good as the first one (Khaled Hosseini is the exception) as publishers expect too much and there is a special "pressure" on the author if the debut novel is great success... Sheila O'Flanagan wrote the good, honnest review I support 100%.
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9,30 € | 240g Advertisement. currency or language preferences), and display features, products and services (e.g. She was supposedly so smart and read every book she could get her hands on, and proceeded to prove her intelligence until about halfway through the book where she did little more than be a translator for some of the characters. Some very funny stories, nearly made me forgive the Swedish King for his recent bad behaviour as I don't really care anyway. It is still funny and clever, but the story gets a little long winded towards the end and while there is still plenty of action going on, so many improbably and hilariously weird circumstances, I just got a bit tired of it. 9,56 € Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. He sold his company and moved abroad to work on his first novel. AU $18.04 SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 FICTION BESTSELLER The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden is a zany, caper-type of novel with some serious undertones and a very admirable heroine. Cosmic and comic, full of philosophy, mysticism and celestial whimsy. 10,49 € Winnie-the-Pooh” Please try again","bd_saving_percent_off":"{0}%
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Though the novel received a mixed critical response, it was … Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden For a second, let's stereotype. The heroine was supposed to save the King of Sweden--it was actually just a lot of mishaps that happened to fall in the right direction after falling in the wrong directions for the rest of the book. By (author) Nombeko is a poor young black girl from the slums of South Africa who ends up involved in a convoluted plot involving an atomic bomb and a plot to overthrow the Swedish monarchy. Absolutely brilliant. Nombeko finds herself leading a band of fugitives whose oddball members are all fleshed out in excellent detail; no character's individual story is left untold. In any environment, she manages to outsmart all people around her and find the correct solution, without being cruel, selfish or bad. Because Jonas Jonasson is known around the world for satire and complex stories filled with wit and a large cast of characters, their being missing causes all sorts of other waves in the universe that … A girl who ignores failures and makes the wisest decision possible.The book's detailed and detailed explanations of events not only bothered me, but also diminished my eagerness to read.This was on my To Be Read List for ages because I loved the 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window so much.
It also dabbles in representations of PTSD, art forgery and how to outsmart Israel’s Mossad.In covering so many different topics and weaving historical fact with fiction the novel is occasionally a baffling read, with so many references to different events, only about half of which I was intimately acquainted with. If you liked Winston Groom's 'Forrest Gump,' you may enjoy this tale of twentieth-century international affairs with its somewhat cleverer protagonist.This is one wacky, offbeat, deadpan humor story. Don't expect to know where the story is going, just give up and let the author lead you around by the nose. of the health insurance industry, the drug companies, the medical profession, and falling apart ten years before Medicare.
If you like The Mouse That Roared, you might like The Girl who Saved the King of Sweden.
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