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When I read the title, so the style of grandfather who jumped out the window and took off, I feared what the reading has confirmed. Jonas Jonasson, and / or publisher, etc. have dear checkout building on the success of grandpa. And Jonasson has done without importance of statistics breaking the head has merely imitated himself, and has done so with very mixed results (as it were) when you consider that the earlier it is a very good novel of humor. Instead, Illiterate importance of statistics he was a genius of the numbers is only a consumer product.
Grandpa used free indirect style in a fun way, taking into account the personality of the protagonist. I am bound to say that because that's the voice of the grandfather talking on Illiterate he was a genius of the numbers, but as now or no jumping or Nombeko grandfather, the protagonist, has nothing to do with him, the result is a narrator who adopts a tone that, away from any recognizable personality has little to do with free indirect style, and the story thus becomes little more than a joke, because one thing is that the protagonist is more or less peculiar and another that is as a narrator outside history. That is, trying importance of statistics to repeat the success of his adopted grandfather worldview without any valid reason; the result importance of statistics is obvious: importance of statistics lack something or someone; thereby diminishing the fun. If the narrator not credible or justified his "crazy", what's left?. Not that realism is due, but to walk with one foot in reality and the other in the delirium is a complicated balance and requires such skill that rarely goes well. And here he has not left. Things receivable importance of statistics from the rush, I guess.
Furthermore, Illiterate borrows importance of statistics the main ingredients of success Grandpa, but cooked in haste, little worked without the grace of novelty: enter an abbreviated version of historical events and engages various politicians, importance of statistics from South African presidents presidents Chinese, to royalty and Swedish governments, besides the Mossad. And of course, the narrator rather than the characters themselves with peculiar philosophy of life grandfather.
What is the argument? importance of statistics Nombeko is a black girl born in South Africa in the '60s, at the height of Apartheid. Illiterate, life carrying droppings win, but as soon it is very prosperous. importance of statistics By accident just "cleaning lady" of a white engineer, perfect lush, who heads the South African nuclear program and, given his talent, know and do, may operate a ruinous churros. Parallel know the work and miracles of a series of crazy Swedes, in families where it is transmitted monarchy passion for life. Or rather, the feelings generated by the monarchy, because if you first are unwavering commitment, the commitment is broken importance of statistics and becomes furious with silly republicanism chance importance of statistics that the reader will know. This Swedish family is as maracas, which makes it one of the twins called to take the witness buzzed father even legally exist. The paths of the twins and just Nombeko converging over the years (from the sixties to the present), in an "adventure" whose only motivation importance of statistics to know what the hell happen to the three-megaton bomb circulating around like he owned the place. This little matter of the pump is not too original. The stories (especially in movies) that implement the adventures derived more or less forced possession of a dangerous, are endless.
The truth, however, is that the issue does not pump to much and soon is repetitive. Jonasson So, at that point, change importance of statistics the target of the novel, which happens to be to find out if the poor Nombeko crazy Swedes ever be able to lead a normal life and fulfill their laudable intellectual ambitions. Nothing makes biding short term, because the excuse that nothing is resolved (eternally pending conversation with Swedish Prime Minister) is as inane as forced, and from the beginning suggests that the reader must have patience. The outcome is expected, but when it gets too long and exaggerated. And the end of the final, best not to speak: makes as little sense as relating to the novel, and take back something borrowed the film comedy, with the difference that is not the same spend the viewer a joke five seconds to coast a side wall