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Author:
Jonasson, Jonas, 1961- author. 837105
Title:
Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd [Lg. print] / Jonas Jonasson ; translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles.
Format:
[Lg. print] /
Edition:
First Harper Large Print edition.
Publisher:
Harper Large Printan imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
533 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Subject:
Swindlers and swindling--Fiction.
Abandoned children--Fiction.
Mothers and sons--Fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Stockholm (Sweden)--Fiction.
Kenya--Fiction.
Large type books.
Action and adventure fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Novels.
Other Authors:
Willson-Broyles, Rachel, translator. 816166
Other Titles:
Hämnden är ljuv AB. English
Notes:
Originally published as Hämnden är ljuv AB in Sweden in 2021 in Piratförlaget.
Summary:
"Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna. It doesn't occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued and adopted by a Maasai medicine man, or that he might be expected to undergo the rituals expected of all new Maasai warriors - which have him running back to Stockholm as fast as you can say circumcision without anaesthetic. Back in Stockholm, Kevin's path crosses with Jenny's - and they have an awful lot to talk about, not least a shared desire to get even with Victor. So it's convenient when they run into a man selling revenge services, who has an ingenious idea involving Victor's cellar, a goat, some forged paintings, four large boxes of sex toys, and a kilo of flour..."--Publisher.
ISBN:
0063242354
9780063242357
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1319731869
Locations:
FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

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