Analfabeten der kunne regne - Jonas Jonasson

Title: Analfabeten der kunne regne (The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden)
Author: Jonas Jonasson
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 4.5/5
# pages: 379 pages
Date read: February, 2014

In 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. The real story starts much earlier, in 1961, with the birth of Nombeko Mayeki in a shack in Soweto. Nombeko was fated to grow up fast and die early in her poverty-stricken township, be it from drugs, alcohol, or just plain despair. But Nombeko takes a different path. She finds work as a housecleaner and eventually makes her way up to the position of chief advisor, at the helm of one of the world's most secret projects.

Written by the same author who wrote The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, and it shows - definitely the same writing style, the same humour and even the same general concept. Fortunately I absolutely loved "The Hundred-Year-Old...", so I was thrilled to read this second novel by him. It was laugh-out-loud funny in places and I was very well entertained by it.

I do think I liked "The Hundred-Year-Old..." a tiny bit better though - but this may just have been because I read that one first and therefore didn't know what to expect.