A Rollicking Revenge Comedy: Read an Extract of Sweet Sweet Revenge LTD. by Jonas Jonasson

A Rollicking Revenge Comedy: Read an Extract of Sweet Sweet Revenge LTD. by Jonas Jonasson

Once upon a time, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, there was a moderately successful artist. His first name was Adolf, and he would eventually be famous the world over for other reasons.

Young Adolf was of the opinion that true art depicted reality as it was, as the eye perceived it. More or less like a photograph, but in colour. ‘Beauty is truth,’ he said, quoting a Frenchman he otherwise wanted nothing to do with.

Much later in life, when Adolf was not quite so young, he saw to it that books, art, and even people went up in flames, in the name of the correct worldview. This eventually led to the biggest war the world had thus far seen. Adolf both lost and perished.

And his worldview went into hiding…

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          Publisher details

          Sweet Sweet Revenge LTD.
          Author
          Jonas Jonasson
          Publisher
          HarperCollins
          Genre
          Fiction
          Released
          16 April, 2021
          ISBN
          9780008465322

          Synopsis

          The brand-new adventure from the beloved author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna. It doesn’t occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued and adopted by a Maasai medicine man, or that he might be expected to undergo the rituals expected of all new Maasai warriors – which have him running back to Stockholm as fast as you can say circumcision without anaesthetic. Back in Stockholm, Kevin’s path crosses with Jenny’s – and they have an awful lot to talk about, not least a shared desire to get even with Victor. So it’s convenient when they run into a man selling revenge services, who has an ingenious idea involving Victor’s cellar, a goat, some forged paintings, four large boxes of sex toys, and a kilo of flour …
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