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L'analphabète Qui Savait Compter (2013)

by Jonas Jonasson(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

2258097061 (ISBN13: 9782258097063)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Presses de la Cité

review 1: Jonasson has created an amazing, wonderful story in this book. The events in the book are absurd, funny and surprising, and even though it is very unlikely that something like this happens for real is about 1 in 45,766,212,810, Jonasson´s great way of writing makes me forgive that.The story follows Nombeko from birth till somewhere in her fourties, and as is the danger with books that cover a lot of years, the story sometimes seems to drag on a bit without much happening. Around page 320, I grew a bit tired with there never being some progress with the main characters´ biggest problem (a problem of about 3 megaton), but what do you know, within twenty pages the characters fall in a landslide of events that are as unlikely as they are funny and well-written.I recommend th... moreis book to everyone!
review 2: Jonasson's book turned out to be much better than I expected. I guess I wasn't really sure how good it would be, as it really didn't sound like something I'd normally read. As it was, I chuckled regularly throughout the book and found it very charming. I have a few minor complaints. The title is misleading. Nombeko doesn't even GET to Sweden until she's in her twenties, and her interactions with the King of Sweden doesn't even occur till the very end of the book. So the title set me up to expect a very different story. Still, its catchy, so I can understand why they went with it. My other little complaint was the slow pace of the novel. While I mostly enjoyed the rambling nature of the narrative, there were many times I felt the story nearly stall. Otherwise, I felt it was really quite lovely. I loved how well it came together at the end and I really enjoyed Nombeko as a character. The Holgers were mostly enjoyable, though Holger One and Celestine began to get rather tiresome near the end. Its not perfect, but its faults didn't ruin for me. I could see myself reading this one again sometimes in the future, but it won't be hanging out with my favorites. Recommended. less

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