The girl who saved the King of Sweden
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Author
Contributions
- Willson-Broyles, Rachel, translator - Contributor
Publication
2014 - , New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
96,750 words, Guess
Page Count
387 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivegirlwhosavedking00jona
- Internet Archivegirlwhosavedking0000jona_g6g2
- ISBN-10006232912X
- ISBN-139780062329127
- Library of Congress Control Number2014434037
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number859586132
- Better World Books9780062329127
- Open LibraryOL26416995M
Classifications
- DDC839.73/8
- LCCPT9877.2.O537 A7313 2014
- LCCPT9877.2.O537 A8213 2014
and 1 more
- LCCPT9877.2.O537A7313
Alternate Titles
- Illiterate who could count
Description
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.
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