The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

Informationen zum Autor Jonas Jonasson was a journalist for the Expressen newspaper for many years. He became a media consultant and later on set up a company producing sports and events for Swedish television. He sold his company and moved abroad to work on his first novel. Jonasson now lives on the Swedish island Gotland in the Baltic Sea. Klappentext As delightfully wry and witty as his bestselling debut, 'The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared', this is a tale of how one woman's attempt to change her future ended up changing everything. Nombeko Mayeki is on the run from the world's most ruthless secret service - with three Chinese sisters, twins who are officially one person and an elderly potato farmer. Oh, and the fate of the King of Sweden - and the world - rests on her shoulders. Born in a Soweto shack in 1961, Nombeko was destined for a short, hard life. When she was run over by a drunken engineer her luck changed. Alive, but blamed for the accident, she was made to work for the engineer - who happened to be in charge of a project vital to South Africa's security. Nombeko was good at cleaning, but brilliant at understanding numbers. The drunk engineer wasn't - and made a big mistake. And now only Nombeko knows about it ...As uproariously funny as Jonas Jonasson's bestselling debut, this is an entrancing tale of luck, love and international relations. Zusammenfassung SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 FICTION BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED Just because the world ignores you, doesn’t mean you can’t save it . . .

Product details

• Authors: Jonas Jonasson, Jonasson Jonas
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.05.2014
• EAN: 9780007557905
• ISBN: 978-0-00-755790-5
• No. of pages: 421
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 31 mm
• Series: Fourth Estate
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Schwedische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Adventure, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Action & Adventure, Espionage & spy thriller, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Satire, Africa, Sweden, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Political / legal thriller, c 1960 to c 1970, Satirical fiction & parodies, c 1960 to c 1969, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Adventure / action fiction