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“The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden: A Novel” is a delightful tale of one woman’s incredible journey. Jonas Jonasson and Rachel Willson-Broyles are the authors of this novel. It is another brilliant novel by Jonasson. Mr. Jonasson has written a modern Picaresque Novel involving with the heroine, Nombeko Mayeki, overcoming South African politics, poverty, attempted sexual assault, slavery, and no formal education. The characters are really original and the situations they scape themselves in and out of are as preposterous. Nombeko grew up virtually without a parent in a Soweto shack but managed to educate herself to an amazing level. She read voraciously and had an innate ability to work out mathematical problems in an instant. She worked in the latrine collection business, and then she worked as a cleaner for an incompetent engineer. While there she stumbled across the knowledge that South Africa had developed six nuclear missiles which were later dismantled but one extra one had escaped the notice of the system. She was now a threat to the justice system and this leads to her escape from SA to Sweden and subsequent crazy adventures. Characters include a nerve-damaged American Vietnam deserter, twin brothers who are officially only one person, three careless Chinese girls, an angry young woman, a potato-growing baroness, the Swedish king and the prime minister. Quirky and utterly unique, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden is a charming and humorous account of one young woman’s unlikely adventure.

“The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared” is a picaresque novel about the 20th century interspersed with a beguiling adventure at the beginning of this century. Jonas Jonasson is the author of this novel. This novel gets off to a promising start, with an endearingly aged protagonist and the makings of an intricate but light-heartened caper plot. Jonas Jonasson offers an outrageously funny story in his telling about the adventures of the 100-year-old man who climbed out of the window. It is really the story of the 20th century, for as we follow Allan Karlsson, an old man making his break from the assisted living facility, we accompany him, not only on dangerous adventures in the present (2005) but through his whole life where he met the lowly and the powerful. He is forever misjudged and bullied, but he seems to remain nonjudgmental and simple even innocent. He is supportive of his friends and does whatever it takes to see them to safety in some very difficult situations. But we who are not so innocent recognize how Allan is used and abused by scientists, politicians, nurses, directors, and those who set on ruling the world. Allan may be tremendously lucky, or maybe deeply wise in the way that only simple people can be.

The “Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It Alla” is an amazing book to anyone looking for an imaginative, entertaining book that keeps you guessing and amused. Jonas Jonasson and Rachel Willson-Broyles are the authors of this book. The authors deliver some underlying messages about the meaning of it all. It is another book that can hold your attention. Hitman Anders, a repeat criminal offender, is released from a stint in prison and takes a room at a sleazy hotel where Per Persson (the author makes a self-effacing joke about his own name) is the receptionist. Per Persson has a chance encounter with a priest, who we learned never wanted to be a priest, doesn’t believe in God, and whose congregation recently ran her off because she cursed her father, the church’s former priest, from the pulpit. The receptionist and the priest, drawn together by their thorough-going contempt for all of humanity, and by their desire to make a little money, become unlikely partners (and lovers). In short, it is a highly readable light reading with surprising insights into almost everything, human nature included.