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The girl who saved the King of Sweden / Jonas Jonasson ; translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles.

Illiterate Who Could Count (other title)
Girl who saved the King of Sweden : (cover title)

Jonasson, Jonas, 1961- (Author). Willson-Broyles, Rachel. (Added Author).

Summary:

"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.

Record details

ISBN: 006232912X
ISBN: 9780062329127
ISBN: 9780062329141
Physical Description: 387 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition
Publisher: New York : Ecco Press, [2014]
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Originally published in Sweden as Analfabeten som kunde räkna by Piratforlaget in 2013"--Title page verso.
Language Note:	Translated from the Swedish.