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A wildly picaresque new novel from Jonas Jonasson, the author of the internationally best-selling The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.
In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at 10, she quickly learns that the world expects nothing more from her than to die young, be it from drugs, alcohol, or just plain despair. But Nombeko has grander plans. She learns to read and write, and at just 15, using her cunning and fearlessness, she makes it out of Soweto with millions of smuggled diamonds in her possession. Then things take a turn for the worse....
Nombeko ends up the prisoner of an incompetent engineer in a research facility working on South Africa's secret nuclear arsenal. Yet the unstoppable Nombeko pulls off a daring escape to Sweden, where she meets twins named Holger One and Holger Two, who are carrying out a mission to bring down the Swedish monarchy...by any means necessary.
Nombeko's life ends up hopelessly intertwined with the lives of the twins, and when the twins arrange to kidnap the Swedish king and prime minister, it is up to our unlikely heroine to save the day - and possibly the world. In this wild romp, Jonasson tackles issues ranging from the pervasiveness of racism to the dangers of absolute power, while telling a charming and hilarious story along the way. In the satirical voice that has earned him legions of fans the world over, Jonasson gives us another rollicking tale of how even the smallest of decisions can have sweeping - even global - consequences.
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Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.
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Volcanic Lairs, Death Rays & Cats… Oh My! 😼
- By C. White on 09-19-23
By: John Scalzi
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Sweet, Sweet Revenge Ltd.
- A Novel
- By: Jonas Jonasson
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The beloved author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared returns with an enchanting adventure that skewers the greed and hypocrisy that dominates our time and holds lessons about what’s truly important in life.
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Entertaining
- By Alek Grant on 07-17-24
By: Jonas Jonasson
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The Prophet and the Idiot
- A Novel
- By: Jonas Jonasson, Rachel Wilson-Broyles - translator
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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In the fading days of late summer, 2011, self-taught astrophysicist Petra has calculated that the atmosphere will collapse in a few weeks’ time—on September 21, at approximately 9:20 pm—ending the world as we know it. But the distraught Petra will not have to carry the burden of this terrible news alone for long. Fate intervenes, bringing her into the orbit of a pair of unlikely companions: Johan, a man whose intellectual prowess is remarkably overshadowed by his culinary skills, and Agnes, a seventy-five-year-old widow who has made a fortune posing as a young influencer on social media.
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The humor and the history
- By Dianne Collins on 07-17-24
By: Jonas Jonasson, and others
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Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All
- By: Jonas Jonasson
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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In a former brothel turned low-rent hotel, the lives of three unusual strangers - a former female priest, recently fired from her church; the ruined grandson of an ex-millionaire working as a receptionist; and Killer-Anders, a murderer newly released from prison - accidentally collide, with darkly hilarious results.
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expected more from Jonasson
- By Jesse on 09-26-16
By: Jonas Jonasson
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A Man with One of Those Faces
- By: Caimh McDonnell
- Narrated by: Morgan C. Jones
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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The first time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul Mulchrone finds himself on the run with nobody to turn to except a nurse who has read one-too-many crime novels and a renegade copper with a penchant for violence. Together they must solve one of the most notorious crimes in Irish history. Or else they’ll be history.
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Not easily pleased
- By Anna on 08-30-18
By: Caimh McDonnell
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Anxious People
- A Novel
- By: Fredrik Backman
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything.
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Read. This. Now.
- By DIY Sammy on 09-09-20
By: Fredrik Backman
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Starter Villain
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.
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Volcanic Lairs, Death Rays & Cats… Oh My! 😼
- By C. White on 09-19-23
By: John Scalzi
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- Real Life Stories, LLC
- 05-31-20
Perfect. Astounding. Marvelous
An absolutely perfect narration with many complex parts and accents. My current favorite author. I listen to his books twice all the way through because they are so compelling.
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- Suramericana
- 02-03-18
I you do not have anything good to read
The author has a good imagination, the book can be a little shorter> I get bored, and I have to stop reading, come back but I just can take it only for few minutes.
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- Eli Stone
- 05-21-16
Not as good as the previous, but still good.
After experiencing this author's previous work-The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared-I really wanted to hear more from Jonas Jonasson. And I got it-but unfortunately, this book isn't quite as great as that one.
Don't get me wrong, the prose is still great and fun, and it's a good screwball comedy-but the thing is, in THYOM, most of what happened was not the direct result of the protagonist being a moron. But Nombeko, for as smart as the writer claims she is, gets handed the idiot ball so many times in this story. There are several places in this book where she somehow never considers that the group she's with contains her own worst enemy and leaves them unchecked, only to move the story forward. I hate when smart characters act stupid for no reason, so that hurts this story for me.
However, despite that one issue, I still enjoyed the book. Just not as much as I could have.
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- E M Doyle
- 08-12-20
Smart fun!
Every character written fully and with sly delight. Unbelievable narrative that is truly believed and fits nicely with history.
Bravo!
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- David Shear
- 05-05-14
A quirky, sweet, super fun novel
I listened to Jonasson's other book "The 100 year old..." and really enjoyed it so jumped on this one when it was released. I was not disappointed--this book was even better.
The themes of this story are:
1. do not underestimate people and
2. still waters run deep.
This book is filled with characters I loved because of their depth and because of how they surprise the reader (listener) and how they continually surprise the "bad" guys in the story.
Jonasson's style is outlandish, with action and scenarios that make you shake your head and chuckle. The suspension of disbelief is easy though because the characters are so lovable that I end up cheering for them no matter how nutty the situations and solutions are. His novels are just fun.
The narrator was great. He wrestled with a lot of accents and handled them very well.
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- Lori K.
- 07-29-15
Leaves your head spinning
Quirky, wise, fast-moving, and utterly engaging! The story moves at a pace that makes your head spin, but was so much fun that I had to keep listening. And the narrator is a master!
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- Dennis
- 11-02-17
A fun read
Great fun to read especially if you are South African or know some of the apartheid era history.
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- Monica
- 10-19-19
Loved it
Funny, charming, exciting, hard to stop reading story. The narrator is amazing too! Can’t wait for more novels from Jonas Jonasson.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-15-21
Rollicking fun
This story is like a narrative Rube Goldberg device — fun twists at every turn, with plenty of historical and political commentary built in. And the narrator did a great job with the many accents necessary.
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- Forgettable Woman
- 04-23-22
Captivating story. Satisfying ending.
I've never read a book with so many twists, turns, and strokes of luck both good and bad. Interesting characters and many laugh out loud moments kept me interested. The ending was perfect.
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