The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
Registered by ardachy of Ipswich, Suffolk United Kingdom on 3/11/2015
This book is in a Controlled Release!
3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 2 by ardachy at Bookcrossing Convention 2015 in Oxford, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on Thursday, March 12, 2015
Picked this up from the Convention's table of temptation... Thanks for bringing it along.
Blurb:
Nombeko Mayeki is on the run from the world's most ruthless secret service - with three Chinese sisters, twins who are officially one person and an elderly potato farmer. Oh, and the fate of the King of Sweden - and the world - rests on her shoulders.
Born in a Soweto shack in 1961, Nombeko was destined for a short, hard life. When she was run over by a drunken engineer her luck changed. Alive, but blamed for the accident, she was made to work for the engineer - who happened to be in charge of a project vital to South Africa's security. Nombeko was good at cleaning, but brilliant at understanding numbers. The drunk engineer wasn't - and made a big mistake. And now only Nombeko knows about it ...
As uproariously funny as Jonas Jonasson's bestselling debut, this is an entrancing tale of luck, love and international relations.
Blurb:
Nombeko Mayeki is on the run from the world's most ruthless secret service - with three Chinese sisters, twins who are officially one person and an elderly potato farmer. Oh, and the fate of the King of Sweden - and the world - rests on her shoulders.
Born in a Soweto shack in 1961, Nombeko was destined for a short, hard life. When she was run over by a drunken engineer her luck changed. Alive, but blamed for the accident, she was made to work for the engineer - who happened to be in charge of a project vital to South Africa's security. Nombeko was good at cleaning, but brilliant at understanding numbers. The drunk engineer wasn't - and made a big mistake. And now only Nombeko knows about it ...
As uproariously funny as Jonas Jonasson's bestselling debut, this is an entrancing tale of luck, love and international relations.
A lovely, entertaining pageturner, a wild, bizarre, unlikely story where nothing is ever taken really seriously, one of those feel-good books (which I can bear only from time to time, but this one is good). It's quite like "The One-Hundred Year-Old..." - some kind of a loser who gets entangled with international politics, but then it's very different too - the protagonist is no old man from Sweden but a quirky young woman from a South African slum.
I just received this book by mail from ApoloniaX. Thank you very much, I am looking forwards to reading it.
Journal Entry 7 by ronsar at -- Per Post geschickt/ Persönlich weitergegeben --, Sachsen Germany on Thursday, July 16, 2015
Well-written, funny, fast-paced, interesting. It could have been a little shorter however. Maybe 5 or 6 chapters shorter, to be precise, because the book was a little repetitive.
Journal Entry 8 by ronsar at Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, August 13, 2015
Released 8 yrs ago (8/13/2015 UTC) at Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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Gave to a non BookCrosser friend.