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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…

 Action & Adventure Dark Humour Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Satire Funny Witty Feel-Good
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Truly so enormously enjoyed listening to one more of these great books. So clever, and uplifting. The wig is to be savoured.

Wonderful.

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This is a Light hearted satire. Very funny and clever and the narrator was excellent!

Loved it!

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Maybe just not my sense of humour but found this utterly stupid! Started ok then went south and ended up in Antarctica! Silly storyline, silly characters, contradictions in characters and timelines, silly story, silly waste of time! Don’t bother!

Ridiculous and silly and stupid and annoying!

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