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. 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 . . .

Report

'A comic delight of love, luck and mathematics' Daily Express
'As unlikely and funny as Jonas Jonasson's 2012 debut bestseller, "The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared"' Observer
'Excellent. A drily satirical tour of the world [taking in] Swedish liberals, Colonel Gaddafi and of course, apartheid and the South African Prime Minister B J Vorster' The Times
''Feel-good' set to stun level' Guardian
'A funny and completely implausible farce about a woman, a bomb and a man's frustrated ambition to overthrow the king of Sweden ... The rest of the world will chuckle all the way through it' Kirkus

Product details

• Authors: Jonas Jonasson, Jonasson Jonas
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.05.2015
• EAN: 9780008126186
• ISBN: 978-0-00-812618-6
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 178 mm x 28 mm
• Series: 151 POCHE; 151 POCHE
• 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