Johan Andersson, conosciuto da tutti come Anders l’Assassino, è appena uscito di prigione e sbarca il lunario facendo piccoli lavori per i gangster della zona, e li farebbe anche bene se non fosse per il vizio di bere, che inizia a minacciare la sua professionalità. La sua vita subisce una svolta quando Anders incontra Johanna Kjellander, pastore della Chiesa protestante, e un portiere d’albergo (o meglio, di un bordello, appena diventato hotel con una stella). I tre decidono di formare una società basata sulle doti (e la reputazione) di Anders, mentre gli altri si occupano di trovare clienti, gestire le relazioni pubbliche e portare avanti nuove strategie di business. L’impresa funzionerebbe, se non fosse che la curiosità porta l’assassino a chiedersi il perché di ogni cosa e dopo qualche discussione con il pastore, decide di rivolgere le sue domande direttamente a Gesù che, del tutto inaspettatamente, gli risponde! Con la svolta religiosa di Anders, Johanna e Per capiscono che la società è in pericolo e devono elaborare un nuovo piano. In fretta. Con il suo stile ironico e del tutto personale, Jonas Jonasson ci mostra come persone all’apparenza normali possano trovarsi in situazioni del tutto assurde, così ci troviamo a seguire le vicende di tre divertenti quanto improbabili personaggi che vogliono fondare una Nuova Chiesa, con tutti i criminali della Svezia alle calcagna!

L'ANALPHABETE QUI SAVAIT COMPT - JONASSON JONAS - Interforum

Now in paperback, a wildly picaresque novel from Jonas Jonasson, author of the internationally bestsellingThe 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at ten, she quickly learns that the world expects nothing more from her than to die young. But Nombeko has grander plans. She learns to read and write, and at just fifteen, using her cunning and fearlessness, she makes it out of Soweto with millions of smuggled diamonds in her possession. Then things take a turn for the worse....

Nombeko's life ends up hopelessly intertwined with the lives of Swedish twins intent on bringing down the Swedish monarchy. In this wild romp, Jonasson tackles issues ranging from the pervasiveness of racism to the dangers of absolute power. In the satirical voice that has earned him legions of fans the world over, he gives us another rollicking tale of how even the smallest of decisions can have global consequences.

Nombeko Mayeki, a chief adviser at the helm of one of the world's most secret projects in South Africa, holds the fate of the world in her hands when she discovers a nuclear missile that was supposed to have been dismantled.

Nombeko Mayeki, a chief adviser at the helm of one of the world's most secret projects in South Africa, holds the fate of the world in her hands when she discovers a nuclear missile that was supposed to have been dismantled.

Confined to a nursing home and about to turn 100, Allan Karlsson, who has a larger-than-life back story as an explosives expert, climbs out of the window in his slippers and embarks on an unforgettable adventure involving thugs, a murderous elephant and a very friendly hot dog stand operator. Original. 75,000 first printing.

The two volume set LNCS 7133 and LNCS 7134 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Applied Parallel and Scientific Computing, PARA 2010, held in Reykjavík, Iceland, in June 2010. These volumes contain three keynote lectures, 29 revised papers and 45 minisymposia presentations arranged on the following topics: cloud computing, HPC algorithms, HPC programming tools, HPC in meteorology, parallel numerical algorithms, parallel computing in physics, scientific computing tools, HPC software engineering, simulations of atomic scale systems, tools and environments for accelerator based computational biomedicine, GPU computing, high performance computing interval methods, real-time access and processing of large data sets, linear algebra algorithms and software for multicore and hybrid architectures in honor of Fred Gustavson on his 75th birthday, memory and multicore issues in scientific computing - theory and praxis, multicore algorithms and implementations for application problems, fast PDE solvers and a posteriori error estimates, and scalable tools for high performance computing.