The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

A picaresque novel of how one person’s actions can have far-reaching—even global—consequences, from a #1 international bestselling author. “A funny and completely implausible farce about a woman, a bomb and a man’s frustrated ambition to overthrow the king of Sweden. . . . The rest of the world will chuckle all the way through it.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 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