The girl who saved the King of Sweden / Jonas Jonasson ; translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Publisher: London Fourth Estate, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 421 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780007557899 (paperback); 9780007557905 (pbk.) :; 0007557906; 0007557892Subject(s): Sweden -- Kings and rulers -- Fiction | South African fiction--21st century--Translations into English | Kings and rulers | South African fiction -- 21st century -- Translations into English | South Africans -- Sweden -- Fiction | Kings and rulers | Nuclear weapons -- Fiction | Twins -- Fiction | Swedish fiction -- Translations into English | Nuclear weapons | South Africans | Twins | South Africans Sweden Fiction | Nuclear weapons Fiction | Twins Fiction | Sweden Kings and rulers Fiction | Sweden -- Kings and rulers -- Fiction | Sweden | Nuclear weapons -- FictionGenre/Form: General fiction | General fiction | Humorous fiction. | Fiction. | Humorous fiction. DDC classification: 839.738 Also issued online.Summary: This is a tale of how one young woman's attempt to change her future ends up changing everything. On 14th June 2007, the King of Sweden disappears. In 1994 South Africa dismantles six missiles, developed during its brief nuclear weapons programme. In 1961 Nombeko Mayeki is born in a Soweto shack. Seemingly destined for a life nasty, brutish and short, her path takes an entirely unpredictable turn. Because really this story is all about the seventh South African missile - the one that was never supposed to have existed. The one that Nombeko knows far too much about. So now she's on the run and running into twins who are officially one person, a Vietnam vet and a potato-loving Baroness. But the fate of the King of Sweden, and indeed the world, will remain on her shoulders alone.
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Originally published in Sweden as Analfabeten som kunde rakna by Piratforlaget in 2013.
This is a tale of how one young woman's attempt to change her future ends up changing everything. On 14th June 2007, the King of Sweden disappears. In 1994 South Africa dismantles six missiles, developed during its brief nuclear weapons programme. In 1961 Nombeko Mayeki is born in a Soweto shack. Seemingly destined for a life nasty, brutish and short, her path takes an entirely unpredictable turn. Because really this story is all about the seventh South African missile - the one that was never supposed to have existed. The one that Nombeko knows far too much about. So now she's on the run and running into twins who are officially one person, a Vietnam vet and a potato-loving Baroness. But the fate of the King of Sweden, and indeed the world, will remain on her shoulders alone.
Also issued online.
Translated from the Swedish.
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