Comedy of errors in face of endtime

Published date11 April 2024
Publication titleTe Puke Times
by Jonas Jonasson, HarperCollins, $26.99

Jonasson is best known for his slightly silly but fun The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. Occasionally we just need a silly read.

Apparently the atmosphere was destined to collapse on September 21, 2011 at 9.20pm. Self-taught astrophysicist Petra has done the calculations and then meets up with doomsday prophet Johan, and Agnes, who is an older widow but has an image online as a youthful influencer.

This unlikely trio head off through Europe to make the most of their last days. Their travels in an RV with the most delicious food Johan (he’s the idiot) can produce is delightfully...

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