3 reasons why Sweet Sweet Revenge is must-read

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SWEET SWEET REVENGE LTD
By Jonas Jonasson

The 2021 outing of the Swedish author is as deliciously wacky as expected and is a brilliant satire on the times we live in – as are all his other books. His ‘masterpiece’, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, remains unsurpassed, however, don’t pass this one over. You’d be missing hours of brilliant writing, and a fantastic tale that serves up an incredible cocktail of fiction laced with facts.

The rollercoaster of a story, studded with gems of side-splitting humour, takes you across from modern-day Sweden to the wilds of Savanna and the Maasai, portrayed with endearing sensitivity and wit. The villain, art dealer Victor Alderheim, is black to the core. He cheats his wife, the young Jenny of her inheritance and dumps her; he does worse by his son Kevin born of a black mother, by dropping him off in the Savanna to be fodder for the wild animals.

Before Kevin could become the Savanna lion’s evening meal, he is found by a Maasai medicine man, Ole Mbatian The Younger, who has eight daughters and is delighted to welcome Kevin as his son fell from the heavens (Keven drops from the tree he has taken refuge in), a gift from the all-knowing divine, En-kai. Kevin loves his new father but circumstances to do with circumcision or the fear of it, leads Kevin back to Stockholm. He meets Jenny accidentally and together they stumble upon Hugo, the entrepreneur who sells revenge. Kevin and Jenny must have their revenge against the vile Victor, their common enemy, and with Hugo’s help they set out to do just that.

The rambunctious adventures of the foursome – Ole Mbatian joins them in Stolkholm, cutting a startling figure in the icy Stockholm winter in his traditional shuka – involve framing Victor in a case of suspected fornication with a goat – shocking all of modern Sweden, and having animal rights activists protesting the fate of the poor goat.
The tale draws in the painter Irma Stein, one of the most famed painters who worked extensively across Africa and weaves a wondrous tapestry of fact and fiction which only a master writer with vast knowledge of the subject can. Jonasson does so with easy dexterity.

If you have not read any of Jonasson’s writings, you are lucky because you have hours and hours of fun ahead of you. This is the best fiction, led as it is with Johasson’s formidable grasp of world affairs. And for those of you who are familiar with his early works, don’t miss Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd. If you happen to read the controversies around Jonasson’s real-life messy divorce with his Indonesian wife, don’t let it prejudice you against Jonasson the author. He is, in a word: brilliant.

Read Sweet Revenge Ltd today – if you haven’t already. And post us your review.