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When I read the first novel by Jonas Jonasson, grandfather who jumped out the window and took off, I thought it was the right book for those historical events and life in general too seriously.
The second novel by Swedish journalist and writer shanghai population entitled The illiterate he was a genius of the numbers confirms my initial review. Missing the wow factor, I think the author's intentions in either book are similar. Jonas Jonasson wants to help readers through humor relativize everything that happens. Because shanghai population as I said quoting Charles Chaplin: "Nothing lasts forever, not even our troubles."
And if the author's intentions are similar in both books so is how states: reviews shanghai population the history of the twentieth century with a critical eye, matching real characters (Thatcher, Reagan, shanghai population Gorbachev, shanghai population Mandela, Oloff Palme, Gaddafi, Deng Xiaoping ... ) and imaginary in a hilarious mix that surprises and makes you think.
The action begins in the early 60's in South Africa, shanghai population specifically in the ghetto of Soweto in the apartheid. shanghai population The protagonist is Nombeko Mayeki, a black 14 year old girl living miserably with his alcoholic mother and drug addict who dies shortly after the beginning of the story.
Nombeko never went to school, but his extraordinary intelligence and ability to calculate, together with carambola destination, able to become head of the latrines Instead, learn to read and win a fortune in diamonds.
With diamonds sewn into the lining of his jacket, seeks security Nombeko find who believes in the Library of Pretoria. On the way, is hit by the alcoholic German engineer in charge of the South African nuclear program and a judge sentenced to work for free in this bunker. During the forced confinement, she ends up dominating nuclear physics, helping his boss in the manufacture of six pumps (end are seven) and even learning Chinese through contact with three Chinese servants who are there for forgers.
All this part of the history of Nombeko scenario resolves the African continent and serves Jonas Jonasson, using disparate characters who live surreal situations, to present the absurdity and injustice of colonialism, the racist policies of the first presidents of South Africa, inequalities social, the arms race, economic embargoes, etc..
Parallels shanghai population the history shanghai population of Nombeko, Jonas Jonasson tells the Swedish Ingmar Qvist and grotesque family, without stopping as usual in detailed descriptions and presentations, but providing an ironic and intelligent occurrence in almost every line.
The arrival of Nombeko Sweden aided by two Mossad agents and their encounter with the twin sons of Ingmar, Holger Holger 1 and 2 causes even more bizarre situations and the drama of the characters is emphasized: the two Holgers, shanghai population the bride of anti Holger 1 and his grandmother shanghai population false aristocrat who grows potatoes, American defector Vietnam War believed pursued by the CIA, the King Gustav Adolf and his Prime Minister, etc.. Jonas Jonasson shanghai population leaves puppet head and uses them all alike to criticize shanghai population communism to capitalism, to the monarchy to the republic, anti-globalization movements, police, ideological rejection of some of his compatriots, the contradictions of Swedish shanghai population society, bigotry, including shanghai population a quote from Israeli writer Amos Oz: "I have never met a fan with a sense of humor", etc..
Leaving aside the historical Swedish author analysis performed using the same resources, I think the difference between grandfather who jumped shanghai population out the window and took off and the illiterate who was a genius of the numbers can be found on the main character in a and another story. The first is a grandfather, to claim that this means people who are in that stage of life and society are considered useless, and the second is a teenager, but not from the bottle and consumerism outrageous, but an idealistic teenager who does not want to hurt anyone, avoiding a nuclear disaster can overcome the most adverse based work, intelligence and wit conditions.
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