The Girl Who Saved The King of Sweden

Estimated time to read: 2 minutes

I've come to understand that while I do not know all the forms of humor I love, I Undoubtedly love the Swedish sense of humor - that form of writing that elicits a laugh not at the end of a line or two or even ten, but at the end of three pages when you understand how the irony works, how the accidents work, how the coincidences work, That form of humor is beautiful. There is also another form of writing Jonas Jonasson Nails and that is dry humor - when he performs reveals about the three Chinese women or about how a group of the unlikeliest people are bundled together in a place you'd never expect, or when a Mossad agent finds himself outwitted by a cleaning woman but that isn't written in a slapstick sort of way, but extremely gracefully - like a bird gliding to a slow and steady landing. I suppose that's the only way to describe This humor style - graceful comedy.
Then there's the whole drama with the Twins - Holger and Holger II and the way the non-existence of the latter (you Have to be there) is portrayed both as extremely tragic to the afflicted and as hilarious to the reader - the whole set of experiences left me grinning ear to ear on walks as I heard the encounters one after another and many a passerby probably wondered why I was smiling so much.
You simply must read about The Girl Who Saved The King of Sweden, because Nombeko, the star of the book has had quite the interesting journey :)