LEADER 00000cam a2200553Ia 4500 001 ocn877886636 003 OCoLC 005 20140520065000.0 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 090713s2014 nju o 000 1 eng d 020 9780062329134 (electronic bk.) 020 0062329138 (electronic bk.) 028 01 EB00266676|bRecorded Books 035 (OCoLC)877886636 037 542A24C5-B0D5-43B2-884D-221D6064730B|bOverDrive, Inc. |nhttp://www.overdrive.com 040 RECBK|beng|cRECBK|dTEFOD|dOCLCO|dBKL|dUtOrBLW 041 1 eng|hswe 049 BKLA 082 04 839.73/8|223 099 eBOOK 100 1 Jonasson, Jonas,|d1961- 240 10 Analfabeten som kunde räkna.|lEnglish 245 14 The girl who saved the King of Sweden|h[electronic resource] /|cJonas Jonasson ; translated by Rachel Willson -Broyles. 250 First edition. 264 1 Hopewell, NJ :|bECCO,|c[2014] 300 1 online resource. 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 347 text file 520 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. 588 Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed April 14, 2014). 650 0 South Africans|zSweden|vFiction. 650 0 Nuclear weapons|vFiction. 650 4 Fiction. 650 7 FICTION / Literary.|2bisacsh 651 0 Sweden|xKings and rulers|vFiction. 655 4 Electronic books. 700 1 Willson-Broyles, Rachel. 710 2 OverDrive, Inc. 856 4 |3Image|uhttp://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/ 0293-1/{542A24C5-B0D5-43B2-884D-221D6064730B}Img100.jpg 856 40 |uhttp://digitalbooks.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/ ContentDetails.htm?ID=542A24C5-B0D5-43B2-884D-221D6064730B |zAn electronic book accessible online 948 MARS 948 LTI 03/24/2019 994 C0|bBKL