Analfabeten som kunde räkna / Jonas Jonasson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jonasson, Jonas, 1961- author.

Contributor:

Edward Zeigler Davis Fund.

Language:

Swedish

Subjects (All):

South Africans--Sweden--Fiction.

South Africans.

Nuclear weapons--Fiction.

Nuclear weapons.

Twins--Fiction.

Twins.

Secret service--Sweden--Fiction.

Secret service.

Diamond smugglers--Fiction.

Diamond smugglers.

Subversive activities--Fiction.

Subversive activities.

Sweden--Kings and rulers--Fiction.

Sweden.

Kings and rulers.

Genre:

Fiction.

Humorous fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

414 pages

Place of Publication:

Stockholm : Piratförlaget, [2018]

Summary:

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.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Zeigler Davis Fund.

ISBN:

9789164205582

9164205584

OCLC:

1061561213