Oliver Fuhrer & Ana Paula Seixlack

Tolle und witzige Story mit herrlichen Figuren. 

Es macht richtig Spass mit der Hauptfigur Buster auf Reisen zu gehen.

Sehr empfehlenswert.

I learned about this book on the book-community “lovelybooks” and was curious reading a novel written by two different authors living on different continents – without having met or even talked to each other before. The story is placed in Switzerland and Brazil – the authors´ natural habitats.

Buster is a rather hopeless man without any sense of direction or people skills. Nevertheless he got a job as a tour guide in the Swiss Alps. Marina on the other side - whose character is completely different from Buster´s by the way - decides to help her pen-friend and to go hiking with his group incognito. Who would have thought of her boss Mrs. Nogueira to join them as well? What follows is a weird adventure in Switzerland with a quite crazy group of tourists.

The point of view switches between Buster, Marina and Mrs. Nogueira. Their internal thoughts let the reader get the picture and lead him through the storyline. The characters created by the authors are realistic, but at the same time weird and eccentric. One important point of the writing style is the frequent use of realistic dialogues. This makes the reading very easy and I guess the book can be used in schools with English as a foreign language.

It´s not an ordinary story anyway. Some things are easy to believe, one might even expect them, while other surprising actions seem that unbelievable to boggle your mind. But in the end it is a book that entertains the reader. And that is the most important point in comedies, isn´t it?