The Invoice

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 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. 


I received The Invoice yesterday and was really looking forward to reading it.  

Our nameless hero lives a normal life, working part-time for a video store.  He has a best friend, has a sister and his parents are deceased.

One day he gets an invoice for 5,700,000 kronor.  Thinking it's a mistake or a scam, he calls the number on the paper and discovers that he must now pay for every happy moment in his life.  How is he charged so much for his life, when others with far more money and more experiences owe much less?  How will he come up with the money to pay this debt?

This book is a very fast, enjoyable and thought provoking read. Our protagonist lives a life very similar to my own so I found myself wondering how much would I be willing to pay for my happy moments and appreciating all of the little things that have made my life so great.  

I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review