Wow. I thought "The girl who saved the king of sweden" was good, but this was much better. It wasn't just that more happens, also it's much brighter and it keeps you even longer happy. What bothered me with Nombeko was that somehow alway something went wrong and she alway seemed to be stuck somewhere and didn't go on. (Which might be only a feeling. The hundred-year old man also is often stuck somewhere, but since he has a long life and it always goes on after several years, it feels much easier and more lighthearted because it brightens your mood much more often.) In some extent Allan Karlson and Nombeko Mayeki were very similar, since both are unpolitical people meddling the global politics. So far comparing it to "The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden".

The idea of the story is already great, a hundred-year old man who actually already said goodbye to life -in his case a very turbulent one- and then still decides to do something in his life instead of waiting for death in the retirement home. And by the way his whole life story is told. On its own this already makes the book wonderful, because it clarifies you, that life is much longer than you believe. That you have more time than you believe and that you also shall use this time. And everything was transcribe so humorously-though sometime macabre, since Jonas Jonasson has a weakness to kill people in his books -and somehow it conveyed such a great vitality, although worse things happen too, since in hundred years such things happen. The book is simply vivid and it's always well-balanced; the charakters as well as the conditions drive the story, because Allan, the hundred-year old man, respectively he wasn't always hundred, just taked what his life gives him and makes something out of it. Then there's this Talent of Jonas Jonasson, to always tell apparently insignificant information, which finally leads to a surprizing punchline, which is totally inspiring. That's great, but since everything links together it's impossible to explain, without making this a spoiler.
Der störende Faktor waren wohl die Tatsache, das in dem Buch zwar einerseits Klischees und klischeehaftes oder fundamentalistisches Denken aufgedeckt und in all ihrer Absurdität hingestellt werden, dass aber auch andere Klischee geschaffen, genutzt oder breitgetreten werden, was allerdings auch als ein Teil von Jonassons Stil betrachtet werden kann. Weil das Buch insgesamt aber deutlich besser als "Die Analphabetin, die rechnen konnte." war, gebe ich gerne fünf Delphine dafür.
The bothering factor is the fact that in the book on the one hand clichés and clichéd or fundamentalist thinking is exposed and situated with all its absurdity, but also other clichés are made, used or expatiated upon. But since the book was clearly better than "The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden" I willingly give five dolphins therefor.
Ich habe heute gerade die Analphabetin ausgelesen und muss sagen, dass sie mir bei weitem nicht so gut gefallen hat wie der Hundertjährige. Den Eindruck, dass der Hundertjährige einfach heiterer zu lesen ist und weniger "Leerlauf" hat, hatte ich auch.
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