Ove Torgny, Hundra procent Roma: en njutbar källa för sköna dagar i Rom (Ängelholm: SkåneFörlaget, 2006)

Guide books are in many ways a curious type of books. All of them promise to some extent the same promise – to introduce the reader to some place (a town, a country or even a whole continent). In doing so the guide book aims to draw out the essence of that place its true core and presents the reader with the highlights, the ‘best of’. It is somewhat unusual for guide books to spell this out as clearly as is the case with Hundra procent Roma by Ove Torgny. If the title in itself is not clear enough, this promise is also taken up on the back cover which declares that the book picks up the thread where other guide books end.