A lovelorn vine burner who could spread manure
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A lovelorn vine burner who could spread manure
The new big bestseller from the author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared!
Sweden in 1852. Poor Smaland, hunger, poverty, revolutionary ideas - and lots of home-made liquor. The young farmer Algot, son of a successful pig farmer, manages to spread manure as sovereignly as he questions authority. When you throw in a forbidden distillation apparatus, count's thoroughbreds, a couple of confessed conspirators and one unexpected love, the confusion is taken care of.
Jonas Jonasson comes up with another absurdist historical comedy full of crazy humour and satire - this time from a time when even a peasant could change the world. Or at least helped to chase away the full moon.
Jonas Jonasson
He was born in Växsjö in southern Sweden. After studying Swedish and Spanish at the University of Gothenburg, he worked successively as a journalist, media consultant, founded his own consulting firm, and was a producer for Swedish television. After 20 years in the media world, he sold his company and moved to the Swiss canton of Ticino, where he started writing. In 2009, he published his first book, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. The book soon became a hit with readers and the best-selling Swedish book of 2010 and 2011. It has been translated into 40 languages. Based on the book, the film was made on the biggest budget in the history of Swedish cinema and premiered in December 2013. His second book, The Illiterate Girl Who Could Count, was published in Czech in May 2014. He currently lives with his son on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea.
