Jonas Jonasson s picaresque tale of how one person s actions can have far-reaching even global consequences, written with the same lighthearted satirical voice as his bestselling debut novel, "The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared."On June 14, 2007, the king and prime minister of Sweden went missing from a gala banquet at the Royal Castle. Later it was said that both had fallen ill. 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. 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.Here is where the story merges with, then diverges from, reality. South Africa developed six...
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