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The invoice : a novel / Jonas Karlsson ; translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith.

by Karlsson, Jonas, 1971-

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Happiness -- Fiction.

Invoices -- Fiction.

Accounts payable -- Fiction.

Stockholm (Sweden) -- Fiction.

9781101905142 (hc.)

Fakturan. English.

1st American ed.

204 p. ; 19 cm.

"Hilarious, profound, and achingly true-to-life, Jonas Karlsson's new novel explores the true nature of happiness through the eyes of hero you won't soon forget. A passionate film buff, our hero's 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 a 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."--From publisher.

Psychological fiction.

Literary fiction.

Swedish fiction -- Translations into English.

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