The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden: A Novel by Willson-Broyles Rachel

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden: A Novel by Willson-Broyles Rachel

A wildly picaresque new novel from Jonas Jonasson, the author of the internationally bestselling The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

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. In this wild romp, Jonasson tackles issues ranging from the pervasiveness of racism to the dangers of absolute power while telling a charming and hilarious story along the way. In the satirical voice that has earned him legions of fans the world over, Jonasson gives us another rollicking tale of how even the smallest of decisions can have sweeping--even global--consequences.

Jonas Jonasson nació en Växjö, una pequeña ciudad del sur de Suecia. Tras una larga carrera como periodista, consultor de medios y productor de televisión, Jonasson decidió empezar una nueva vida y dedicarse a escribir el libro que llevaba años en la cabeza. Para ello se instaló en Ponte Tresa, un pueblecito junto al lago de Lugano, en Suiza, donde nació El abuelo que saltó por la ventana y se largó, que ganó el Premio de los Libreros en Suecia, se convirtió en un fenómeno mundial y dio inicio a una exitosa serie de novelas que completan La analfabeta que era un genio de los números, El matón que soñaba con un lugar en el paraíso y, ahora, El abuelo que volvió para salvar el mundo. De todas ellas, editadas en cuarenta y cinco países de los cinco continentes, se han vendido más de quince millones de ejemplares. En la actualidad, Jonasson vive en la isla sueca de Gotland, en el mar Báltico.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780062405418
ISBN 10	0062405411
Title	The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden: A Novel
Author	Willson-Broyles Rachel
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Ecco
Year published	2015-05-05
Number of pages	400
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.