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[Spanish] - El abuelo que volvió para salvar el mundo
Otra divertidísima historia de Jonas Jonasson, que, con un humor disparatado, aborda de lleno el momento político actual. Desde aquel día no tan lejano en que Allan Karlsson saltó por la ventana de la residencia de ancianos y se lanzó a todo tipo de aventuras con la avidez de un jovenzuelo, el mundo ha sufrido una transformación radical que lo ha sumido en el desconcierto y la incertidumbre. Ante tal estado de cosas, un espíritu inquieto y una mente sin prejuicios, sumados a una tableta con acceso ilimitado a internet, impulsan al incombustible abuelo a emprender una singular cruzada a fin de salvaguardar la paz mundial. Todo empieza en una playa en Bali, donde Allan se encuentra con Julius para celebrar el centésimo primer año de vida. La idea de su amigo de regalarle un paseo en globo aerostático no deja de ser brillante, pero una vez en el aire la situación se complica: los intrépidos aeronautas pierden el control de la aeronave y caen al mar. Extraviados en la inmensidad del océano, la suerte parece sonreírles cuando un carguero se cruza en su camino y los rescata, salvo que se trata, en realidad, de un buque norcoreano que transporta cuatro kilos de uranio enriquecido con destino a Pyongyang, el feudo inexpugnable de un Kim Jong-un enfrascado en su programa de desarrollo nuclear. Así, en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, Allan se ve inmerso en una misión de la máxima trascendencia, una tarea diplomática muy delicada que lo llevará de Corea del Norte a Nueva York, después a Suecia y finalmente a África. Pero, ante los numerosos obstáculos y la complejidad de la operación, el superabuelo no tiene más remedio que plantarse ante Donald Trump y Angela Merkel para exponerles sus originales planes, sin cuyo cumplimiento la humanidad se encamina hacia una crisis de insospechadas consecuencias. La crítica ha dicho... «Divertido y descabellado como el primer libro, con el añadido de estar ambientado en la disparatada política de hoy.» Express «La prosa inteligente de Jonasson, deliciosamente alocada, y los comentarios políticos satíricos deleitarán tanto a los seguidores de la primera novela como a los nuevos adeptos.» Publishers Weekly «Una sátira estimulante y oportuna sobre el estado actual del mundo y los peligros del poder.» Booklist «Jonasson crea algo casi imposible con sus astutas evaluaciones del inestable clima político global de hoy y unos personajes increíblemente entrañables.» Library Journal
Jonas Jonasson (Author), Jordi Boixaderas (Narrator)
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The brand-new, hilarious, feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared Sweden, late summer of 2011. Self-taught astrophysicist Petra has calculated that the atmosphere will collapse on the 21st of September that year, around 21.20 to be more precise, bringing about the end of times. Armed with this terrible knowledge, Petra meets Johan, a domesday prophet, and Agnes, a widow of 75 who has made bank living a double life on social media as a young influencer. Together, the trio race through Europe as they plan to make the most out of the time they have left, in more ways than one. But of course, things rarely go to plan, even the end of the world…
Jonas Jonasson (Author), Peter Kenny (Narrator)
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[Spanish] - Una dulce venganza
Un trepa ambicioso y sin escrúpulos. Una galería de arte de postín. Dos jóvenes con asias de justicia. Humor a raudales y malicia concentrada en la nueva novela de Jonas Jonasson. Victor Svensson, un tipo ambicioso y sin escrúpulos, se casa con la hija de un multimillonario galerista en los últimos momentos de la vida de este. Cuando el hombre fallece, Victor engaña a su mujer y logra hacerse con el negocio y ver colmadas por fin sus ansias de dinero y poder. Sin embargo, la aparición en escena de un hijo bastardo de Victor, fruto de una antigua relación, podría dar al traste con sus planes, y no está dispuesto a permitirlo. A partir de este punto se desarrolla una divertidísima trama de enredos que mezcla de forma asombrosa la realidad de las tribus masáis, la obra de la pintora Irma Stern, la figura de Hitler y el papel del arte en la configuración de su destino y, sobre todo, la sed de venganza de un joven sin nada que perder. La crítica ha dicho... «Jonasson vuelve a la carga con una novela humorística sobre el mercado del arte, el contraste entre Occidente y África y las ansias de venganza». La Vanguardia «El mundo del arte en una disparatada historia». Harper's Bazaar «El humor salvaje de Jonasson brilla en una historia de traiciones, egos y venganzas». Ara
Jonas Jonasson (Author), Pablo Ibáñez Durán (Narrator)
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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 …
Jonas Jonasson (Author), Peter Kenny (Narrator)
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El abuelo que saltó por la ventana y se largó
Una historia extremadamente audaz e ingeniosa que sorprenderá constantemente al lector.
Jonas Jonasson (Author), Jordi Boixaderas (Narrator)
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The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
The sequel to Jonas Jonasson's international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un ... Soon Allan and Julius are at the centre of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel and President Trump. Things are about to get very complicated ... Praise for The Hundred-Year-Old Man: 'A mordantly funny and loopily freewheeling debut novel about ageing disgracefully' Sunday Times 'Imaginative, laugh-out-loud . . . a brilliant satire on the foibles of mankind' Daily Telegraph 'Fast-moving and relentlessly sunny' Guardian
Jonas Jonasson (Author), Peter Kenny (Narrator)
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Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All
From the author of the international bestseller The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, 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. 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-accidently collide with darkly hilarious results. Seeing a lucrative opportunity in Killer-Anders, the unlikely trio form an unusual new business. The Priest and The Receptionist will handle strategy and public relations, and coordinate Killer-Anders' "missions." Using the media's obsessive need for sensational, headline-making stories to advertise their talent's superb "skill," they quickly build a clientele of rich Swedish gangsters. Suddenly, they're making an altogether different kind of killing of their own. But when Killer-Anders begins asking deeper questions about purpose and meaning, his curiosity leads him to an unexpected discovery: he finds Jesus. Desperate to save the money machine they've built, The Priest and The Receptionist devise an audacious plan utilizing Killer-Anders' newfound and decidedly fervent faith. Mischievous yet big-hearted, filled with Jonas Jonasson's trenchant humor and delightful twists, Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All is a delightful comic adventure that reminds us it's never to late to start over-and to discover what truly matters.
Jonas Jonasson, Rachel Willson-Broyles (Author), Peter Kenny (Narrator)
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Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All
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
Jonas Jonasson (Author), Peter Kenny (Narrator)
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The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden: A Novel
A wildly picaresque new novel from Jonas Jonasson, the author of the internationally bestselling 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 ten, 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 fifteen, 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.
Jonas Jonasson, Rachel Willson-Broyles (Author), Peter Kenny (Narrator)
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The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 FICTION BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED Just because the world ignores you, doesn't mean you can't save it . . . Nombeko Mayeki was never meant to be a hero. Born in a Soweto shack, she seemed destined for a short, hard life. But now she is on the run from the world 's most ruthless secret service, with three Chinese sisters, twins who are officially one person and an elderly potato farmer. Oh, and the fate of the King of Sweden - and the world - rests on her shoulders. As uproariously funny as Jonas Jonasson's bestselling debut, this is an entrancing tale of luck, love and international relations. 'A comic delight of love, luck and mathematics' Daily Express 'It's "feel-good" set to stun level' Guardian 'As unlikely and funny as The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared' Observer
Jonas Jonasson (Author), Peter Kenny (Narrator)
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he’s still in good health—and tomorrow is his hundredth birthday. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn’t interested (and he’d like a bit more control over his vodka consumption). So he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving, among other surprises, a suitcase stuffed with cash, some unpleasant criminals, a friendly hot-dog stand operator, and an elephant. Quirky and utterly unique, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared has charmed over two million people around the world. “As Allan’s colorful and complex history merges with his present-day escapades, readers will be treated to a new and charmingly funny version of world history and get to know a very youthful old man whose global influence knows no age limit. An international bestseller, this is an engaging tale of one man’s life lived to the fullest.”--Booklist
Jonas Jonasson (Author), Steven Crossley (Narrator)
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