Publisher's Synopsis
Jonas Jonasson vuelve a demostrar en esta nueva novela, divertida, irreverente y llena de giros inesperados, sus inconfundibles dotes fabuladoras.
En esta ocasión, la trama se centra en un trìo de personajes encabezados por Johan Asesino Andersson, quien, después de cumplir en la cárcel tres largas condenas por homicidio, se gana la vida realizando pequeños trabajos de intimidación para los gánsteres locales mientras lucha contra su afición a la bebida, que está empezando a afectar negativamente su desempeño profesional.
Todo cambia, sin embargo, el dìa que conoce a una pastora protestante que no cree en Dios y al apocado recepcionista de un antiguo burdel reconvertido en hotel de una estrella. Una vez que el azar los ha reunido bajo el mismo techo, el instinto de supervivencia los lleva a idear una solución permanente para dejar atrás la pobreza. Si a la innegable habilidad de Asesino para amedrentar al prójimo sumamos una gestión adecuada y un plan de negocio que incluya relaciones públicas de calidad, el éxito parece asegurado...
Y asì sucede hasta que el repentino encuentro de Asesino Anders con Jesucristo amenaza con dar al traste con el maravilloso tinglado, lo que obligará a la pastora y al recepcionista a rediseñar su estrategia para evitar volver a la existencia precaria y anodina que llevaban antes de que el devoto matón se cruzara en su camino.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
From the author of the international bestseller The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, a brilliant satirical novel set in modern Sweden-a story of idealism and fanaticism, gangsters and entrepreneurs, sensationalism and spirituality, that explores the values that matter in contemporary life.
In a former brothel turned low-rent hotel, the lives of three unusual strangers-a former female priest, recently fired from her church; the ruined grandson of an ex-millionaire working as a receptionist; and Killer-Anders, a murderer newly released from prison-accidently collide with darkly hilarious results.
Seeing a lucrative opportunity in Killer-Anders, the unlikely trio form an unusual new business. The Priest and The Receptionist will handle strategy and public relations, and coordinate Killer-Anders' "missions." Using the media's obsessive need for sensational, headline-making stories to advertise their talent's superb "skill," they quickly build a clientele of rich Swedish gangsters. Suddenly, they're making an altogether different kind of killing of their own.
But when Killer-Anders begins asking deeper questions about purpose and meaning, his curiosity leads him to an unexpected discovery: he finds Jesus. Desperate to save the money machine they've built, The Priest and The Receptionist devise an audacious plan utilizing Killer-Anders' newfound and decidedly fervent faith.
Mischievous yet big-hearted, filled with Jonas Jonasson's trenchant humor and delightful twists, Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All is a delightful comic adventure that reminds us it's never to late to start over-and to discover what truly matters.
