“Allan didn't even know if the Prime Minister was Left or Right. He must certainly be one of them, because if there was one thing life had taugh Allan, it was that people insisted on being one or the other.” — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“Dr. Eklund was utterly dumbfounded. Did the prime minister think that a waiter who had dropped out of school before he was ten years old could be put to use to build atom bombs for Sweden?” — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“The weekly show View on Africa was what first gave her the insight that there was a world outside Soweto. It wasn’t necessarily more… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“And there Allan could see an opening. In a prison camp you couldn't just hang around, because if you did then the guards would… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“It was tough to think in new ways and equally tough to remember the old.” — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“Revenge is like politics, one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.” — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“Allan lurte på hva den lille mannen gjorde i luken hvis han ikke solgte billetter, men sa ingenting. Den lille mannen satt jo kanskje… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“Allan woke up and wondered whether it wouldn't soon be time to go to bed.” — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“Stařík chtěl vodku s kolou. Při slavnostnějších příležitostech si místo toho dokázal představit vodku s vodkou.” — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“The hundred-year-old man had never let himself be irritated by people, even when there was a good reason to be, and he was not… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“In the end, they could think of no better solution than to put a bullet between his eyes, so they could go about their… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“The engineer’s head was spinning. So he was supposed to receive a guest the president didn’t want to meet. He would tell the guest… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
