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The Prophet and the Idiot

By: Jonas Jonasson
Narrated by: Peter Kenny
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The brand-new, hilarious, feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

Sweden, late summer of 2011. Self-taught astrophysicist Petra has calculated that the atmosphere will collapse on the 21st of September that year, around 21.20 to be more precise, bringing about the end of times.

Armed with this terrible knowledge, Petra meets Johan, a domesday prophet, and Agnes, a widow of 75 who has made bank living a double life on social media as a young influencer. Together, the trio race through Europe as they plan to make the most out of the time they have left, in more ways than one.

But of course, things rarely go to plan, even the end of the world…

© 2023 Jonas Jonasson (P) 2023 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Action & Adventure Dark Humour Disaster Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Fiction Funny Witty Feel-Good

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Loved the characters. I read this by the pool on holiday. Lost the book at the pool and had to buy it back from the pool man for €3...

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Ridiculous, outrageous, very funny, completely unbelievable and believable simultaneously! The author, the translation, and the reader, all come together in this hilarious and uplifting book. Loved every minute of it!

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JJ on magnificent form, weaving wild stretches of imagination with delightful characters and nuggets of wisdom.

A big smile of a story!

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very amusing throughout and I really liked all the characters with their quirky personalities. definitely worth the read/listen

loved it

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The book is another one of the easy to read, intently funny and captivating journeys by the author. Amazing read.

Fantastic - as always.

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Enjoined all of it. looking forward to his next book. till then read it again.

You did it again So so funny😆

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Ludicrously brilliant once again! Such a wonderful imagination- brilliantly told. Can’t wait until the next instalment of ridiculous surrealness.

Bravo

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Typical mad plot and amusing characters - a great listen as always. Well- narrated too.

Jonas Jonasson

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You can never go wrong with Jonas Jonassons books funny, quirky with political humour.

Main characters are loveable, story takes you through many countries meeting political figures as normal.

Amusing as usual

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So entertaining! Love this author. This is the second book I’ve enjoyed. Great story, characters, humour & narration.

Great story, characters, humour & narration

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