Prophet and the Idiot

<p><strong>Obsessed by what they are certain is the impending apocalypse a mismatched trio set off on a globetrotting road-trip in the latest feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of <em>The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.</em></strong></p><p>In the fading days of late summer 2011 self-taught astrophysicist Petra has calculated that the atmosphere will collapse in a few weeks' time--on September 21 at approximately 9:20 pm--ending the world as we know it.</p><p>But the distraught Petra will not have to carry the burden of this terrible news alone for long. Fate intervenes bringing her into the orbit of a pair of unlikely companions: Johan a man whose intellectual prowess is remarkably overshadowed by his culinary skills and Agnes a seventy-five-year-old widow who has made a fortune posing as a young influencer on social media. Convincing them of the impending doom Petra Johan and Agnes embark on a wild adventure in a camper van that will take them from their homes in Sweden through Europe to their destination: Rome.</p><p>Johan plans to make the most of the time he has left. He has decided at last to stand up to his heinous big brother promising to deliver a swift yet brutal blow in more ways than one. But of course nothing ever goes as planned. Not even the end of the world. . . .</p><p>In this his sixth novel Jonas Jonasson takes us on a dazzling odyssey across the globe-from Sweden through Europe across Africa and all the way to the US. <em>The Prophet and the Idiot</em> is an immensely funny socially conscious and life-affirming yarn about what happens when three odd yet fully reasonable characters come together and find cause to make mutual plans all relayed in Jonasson's classically hilarious style.</p><p>Translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles</p>