The Girl who Saved the King of Sweden

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Call Number: Fiction / Jonasson, Jonas
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Jonasson, Jonas	4-week checkout	Due 05-16-2024

"Originally published in Sweden as Analfabeten som kunde räkna by Piratforlaget in 2013."--Title page verso.
"In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at ten, she quickly learns that the world expects nothing more from her than to die young, be it from drugs, alcohol, or just plain despair. But Nombeko has grander plans. She learns to read and write, and at just fifteen, using her cunning and fearlessness, she makes it out of Soweto with millions of smuggled diamonds in her possession. Then things take a turn for the worse... Nombeko ends up the prisoner of an incompetent engineer in a research facility working on South Africa's secret nuclear arsenal. Yet the unstoppable Nombeko pulls off a daring escape to Sweden, where she meets twins named Holger One and Holger Two, who are carrying out a mission to bring down the Swedish monarchy...by any means necessary. Nombeko's life ends up hopelessly intertwined with the lives of the twins, and when the twins arrange to kidnap the Swedish king and prime minister, it is up to our unlikely heroine to save the day--and possibly the world"--from publisher's web site.

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Very Engaging submitted by allishaklausch on August 19, 2016, 8:12am This book was a fun, rollar coaster of a read. The narrative goes back and forth between Nombeko, a girl in South Africa, and a family in Sweden with a father who's obsessed with the king. After lots of drama, there worlds collide for a very funny and touching story.

Tragically hilarious submitted by 21621032124198 on March 6, 2020, 7:35pm Excellent, twisting, and winding story in which the brilliant Nombeko ends up in fantastically funny and frustrating situations. Jonasson is a keen observer of human and political behavior, with an interesting cosmopolitan view. He easily guides the reader into the chaotic and interesting lives of people all over the world. His other novel, "The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared" was equally good.

Quirky, but a bit tedious submitted by 21621031390949 on June 12, 2022, 7:21pm Definitely not as good as his previous novel, “The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.”