num_pages: 204
description: Hilarious profound and achingly true-to-life Jonas Karlssons novel explores the true nature of happiness through the eyes of hero you wont soon forgetA passionate film buff our heros life revolves around his part-time job at a video store the company of a few precious friends and a daily routine that more often than not concludes with pizza and movie in his treasured small space in Stockholm. When he receives an astronomical invoice from a random national bureaucratic agency everything will tumble into madness as he calls the hotline night and day to find out why he is the recipient of the largest bill in the entire country. What is the price of a cherished memory? How much would you pay for a beautiful summer day? How will our carefree idealist who is content with so little and has no chance of paying it back find a way out of this mess? All these questions pull you through The Invoice and prove once again that Jonas Karlsson is simply a master of entertaining intelligent and life-affirming work.
language: English
title: The Invoice
publisher: Hogarth