The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden : A Novel

The Girl Who Saved The King Of SwedenAuthor(s): Jonas JonassonFrom the author of the five-million-copy bestseller The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared comes the charming, original story of one young woman’s unlikely adventure, praised as “a comic delight” (Daily Express). Quirky, humorous and utterly unique, Jonas Jonasson delights readers once again with The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden.On June 14, 2007, the king and the prime minister of Sweden went missing from a gala banquet at the royal castle. Later it was said that both had fallen ill, but the truth is different . . . and oddly entwined with a potato truck and a young former latrine cleaner who will be charged with saving their lives.Nombeko Mayeki was fated to grow up fast and die young in poverty, but through a combination of cunning, intelligence and sheer determination makes her way up from the latrines and out of her native Soweto with a pocket full of smuggled diamonds, only to be taken pris