Victor Svensson has big plans for Alderheim’s Art Trade. The path to power and influence goes through the art dealer’s daughter Jenny — a modest, young woman who loves expressionism more than anything.

African medicine man Ole Mbatian has long wanted a son. To his great delight, an almost fully grown one falls from the sky, landing in front of his feet — literally, and quite fitting for someone who has such a strong faith in God.

During a midsummer party with the neighbors, a business idea is born in Hugo Hamlin’s brain. The idea is discussed over herring and snaps: What do you do if someone steps on your toes? Maybe by putting out their garbage where you wouldn’t want them to? Or if someone is impudent? Scratches your car? Big and small annoyances worldwide can be converted into money. The company Sweet, Sweet Revenge LTD. is soon to be a booming business.

JONAS JONASSON’s fifth novel moves freely across the continents, fate turning the parallel stories into one. A lightly dressed Maasai and medicine man in central Stockholm in the cold winter. The entrepreneur who is selling revenge on a can. A vengeful couple. And he whom everyone wants revenge on. And in the midst of it, a couple of paintings of unclear value. A thousand dollars or a million? Who painted them? Who owns them? And what does the pope have to do with everything?

REVIEWS

‘A revenge scheme goes hilariously awry in this zany if glib farce from Jonasson … Jonasson manages to keep the reader invested in the revenge campaign … a page turner.’
– Publishers Weekly

‘Jonas Jonasson creates hilarity out of brilliantly absurd plots, whether it is a 100-year-old man escaping through an old folk’ home window, or a South African peasant girl who saves the King of Sweden. His latest unlikely hero is Kevin who is abandoned by his callous father on the Kenyan savannah in the expectation he will be eaten by lions…Add a crooked art dealer, a lazy Swedish policeman, an ophthalmologist whose wife ditched him for a urologist, and we are set for delicious Jonasson mayhem. […] A glorious romp which confirms Jonas Jonasson’s status as the most brilliant comic novelist alive.’
– Daily Mirror

‘In the first chapters of Sweet, Sweet Revenge Ltd, there’s enough plot for several novels… Jonas Jonasson, best known for The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, is a wildly inventive writer, often funny, who stuffs his bonkers but entertaining story with art, politics and romance, and a tongue-incheek meditation on the philosophy of getting even. Great fun.’
– The Times

‘This novel certainly zips along.’
– The Sunday Times

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