Неграмотная, которая спасла короля и королевство в придачу

She began working at five years old and was orphaned at ten. Nombeko Mayeki would soon have ended her joyless days in a tin hut in Soweto, South Africa, if she hadn’t been run over by a drunken racist’s car at the age of fifteen, and most importantly, if she hadn’t been what she was - a genius in mathematics, and not only that, despite the fact that she was reputed to be illiterate.< /span>

Thanks to his intelligence and lucky chance, Nombeko first gets out of the slum, then from the super-secret military base of Pelindaba, hardly distinguishable from a prison , and, finally, from South Africa during the heyday of apartheid. She ends up in Sweden, where she dreams of joining the riches of the National Library, but instead she is forced to hide and cover her tracks, because she becomes the unwitting keeper of a deadly weapon capable of destroying tens and hundreds of thousands of lives. Agents of a powerful foreign intelligence service, whose path she accidentally crossed, are looking for her, and endless dangers await her from new acquaintances who do not possess even a small share of her talents, but are filled with ebullient energy.

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Another surprisingly funny book with a surprisingly long title from Sweden's wittiest writer.

Nombeko Mayeki was unlucky to be born in the early sixties in South Africa during the heyday of apartheid, where her closest circle were the black gold diggers of Soweto , was doing mainly two things - “slowly killing himself and going to say goodbye to those who had already succeeded.” But Nombeko is an unusual girl, her ability to absorb new information is second only to her thirst for knowledge. Having learned to read and write, she first becomes the head of the sanitation department of sector “B” of Soweto, and then leaves the slums altogether, following her dream of getting to the National Library of Pretoria. But instead she turns out to be a prisoner of the super-secret military base Pelinda, from which, however, she also manages to escape, and not just somewhere, but to Sweden itself...

"The Illiterate Woman Who Saved the King and the Kingdom to boot" is the second novel by Jonas Jonasson, author of the acclaimed bestseller "One Hundred Years and a Suitcase of Money to boot." Admirers of the Swedish writer's talent will find in the new novel all the characteristic features of Jonasson's signature style: unusually bright, memorable characters, dashing plot twists and, of course, a unique cocktail of irony, satire and absurdist humor. The novel has been translated into 28 languages ​​and has already sold 3 million copies worldwide.