Hitman Anders And The Meaning Of It All (Fourth Estate) (161 POCHE)

A madcap new novel from the author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO START AGAIN. AND AGAIN. It's always awkward when five thousand kronor goes missing. When it happens at a certain grotty hotel in south Stockholm, it's particularly awkward because the money belongs to the hitman currently staying in room seven. Per Persson, the hotel receptionist, just wants to mind his own business, and preferably not get murdered. Johanna Kjellander, temporarily resident in room eight, is a priest without a vocation, and, as of last week, without a parish. But right now she has two things at her disposal: an envelope containing five thousand kronor, and an excellent idea . . . Featuring one violent killer, two shrewd business brains and many crates of Moldovan red wine, Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All is an outrageously zany story with as many laughs as Jonasson's multimillion-copy bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. Per Persson je vnuk propadlega trgovca s konji in si služi kruh kot receptor v tretjerazrednem hotelu na Švedskem. Med stalnimi gosti je možakar, znan kot Morilec Anders, ki Peru zaupa svojo življenjsko zgodbo. Živel je med izmečki družbe, večkrat mu je prekipelo in zaradi nasilništva je zagrešil nekaj umorov, vendar je svoje odsedel in zdaj upa, da se bo lahko držal na vajetih. Po takšni izpovedi mora Per Persson malce na zrak. Na klopci v parku se mu pridruži Johanna Kjellander, brezposelna duhovnica, ki se je razšla s svojo faro, zdaj pa nujno potrebuje streho nad glavo in nekaj za pod zob. Tudi ona se nastani v hotelu. Nima veliko denarja, ima pa poslovno žilico. Lepo, da Morilec Anders ne bo nikogar več ubil. Kaj pa če bi proti plačilu določenim nepridipravom polomil par kosti? Skrb za organizacijo naj prepusti njima, torej Johanni in Peru. Takšen je začetek tvornega sodelovanja in kasneje cvetočega posla. Stvari pa se zapletejo, ko Morilec Anders odkrije Jezusa. Zdaj bi rad ljudem pomagal, nikomur več ne bo skrivil niti lasu na glavi. Kaj bodo na to rekli gangsterji, ki so že plačali za pretepe? Švedski humor v polnem zamahu The bestselling novel from the author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO START AGAIN. AND AGAIN. It's always awkward when five thousand kronor goes missing. When it happens at a certain grotty hotel in south Stockholm, it's particularly awkward because the money belongs to the hitman currently staying in room seven. Per Persson, the hotel receptionist, just wants to mind his own business, and preferably not get murdered. Johanna Kjellander, temporarily resident in room eight, is a priest without a vocation, and, as of last week, without a parish. But right now she has two things at her disposal: an envelope containing five thousand kronor, and an excellent idea . . . Featuring one violent killer, two shrewd business brains and many crates of Moldovan red wine, Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All is an outrageously zany story with as many laughs as Jonasson's multimillion-copy bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. 'Enormous fun' The Times 'A thrilling ride' Financial Times A madcap new novel from the one-of-a-kind author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden A GANGSTER, A VICAR AND A RECEPTIONIST WALK INTO A BAR ... Hitman Anders is fresh out of prison and trying to keep his head down when he meets a female Protestant vicar (who happens to be an atheist), and a receptionist at a 1-star hotel (who happens to be currently homeless). Together they cook up an idea for a very unusual business that's going to make them all a fortune - but then all of a sudden, and to everyone's surprise, Anders finds Jesus ... Anders' sudden interest in religion might be good for his soul but it's not good for business, and the vicar and the receptionist have to find a new plan, quick. As wildly funny and unexpected as The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden, this is a madcap, feel-good adventure about belief, the media - and the fact that it's never too late to start again A madcap new novel from the one-of-a-kind author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO START AGAIN. AND AGAIN. It's always awkward when five thousand kronor goes missing. When it happens at a certain grotty hotel in south Stockholm, it's particularly awkward because the money belongs to the hitman currently staying in room seven. Per Persson, the hotel receptionist, just wants to mind his own business, and preferably not get murdered. Johanna Kjellander, temporarily resident in room eight, is a priest without a vocation, and, as of last week, without a parish. But right now she has two things at her disposal: an envelope containing five thousand kronor, and an excellent idea . . . Featuring one violent killer, two shrewd business brains and many crates of Moldovan red wine, Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All is an outrageously zany story with as many laughs as Jonasson's multimillion-copy... "A brilliant satirical novel set in modern Sweden, a story of idealism and fanaticism, gangsters and entrepreneurs, sensationalism and spirituality, that explores the values that matter in contemporary life." -- Provided by publisher Anders, a former hitman, starts a business venture with an ex-vicar and a hotel receptionist that will make them all a fortune, but when Anders finds religion, his new found faith starts ruining their plans