The story is convoluted and completely mad but was easy to read. If you like this book, you’ll love: The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis. Stabbing someone with scissors? Pocket Review - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden, Jonas Jonasson. It is still funny and clever, but the story gets a little long winded towards the end and while there is still plenty of action going on, so many improbably and hilariously weird circumstances, I just got a bit tired of it. In The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden, Jonas Jonasson unfurls a wide, whimsical net that readers will relish being caught up in. Sun 4 May 2014 12.30 BST Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2015. Therefore, if you're looking for something with a bit of everything, Jonas Jonasson is your man and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden is definitely your book. . At the heart of this very likable book is the notion that even someone from the humblest of origins can have a gigantic impact on life. While there she stumbled across the knowledge that South Africa had developed six nuclear missiles which were later dismantled but one extra one had escaped the notice of the system. Download the entire issue for the Kindle or Nook. Jonasson can make you laugh at just about anything. Published Pocket Review - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden, Jonas Jonasson Review Written By. Calling up memories of Mandela in this story has a prescriptive and instructive purpose that merits it’s place in the tale. Nombeko is a poor young black girl from the slums of South Africa who ends up involved in a convoluted plot involving an atomic bomb and a plot to overthrow the Swedish monarchy. ‘The Girl Who Saved The King of Sweden’ is hardly going to go down in history as a turning point in modern literature, and anyone looking for complex character work should look elsewhere…but for a quirky, light read, it’s rather entertaining and will likely help you pass a few hours. The premise was interesting, the comments on the cover said it was hilarious, it was a bargain book: these are the reasons why I decided to put myself through the torture of reading this book. Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2018. She was supposedly so smart and read every book she could get her hands on, and proceeded to prove her intelligence until about halfway through the book where she did little more than be a translator for some of the characters. I'm only half way through. Another really funny book by Jonas Jonasson, whilst dealing with important and difficult topics. • Monday, March 20, 2017. I normally do not write reviews for books, but after reading The Girl WHo Saved the King of Sweden , I had to! This is a concatenation of outrageous improbabilities peopled by cartoonish characters capering across Potemkinesque landscapes. It's inventive, fluffily benign and enjoyably subversive. She then meets a strange group of misfits who assist her (often inadvertently) with obtaining a normal life, including a boyfriend. She has a good head on her shoulders and can quickly learn anything. In 1961, Nombeko Mayeki is born a poor black girl in Soweto. How she learns to read, ends up in possession of quite a few diamonds and later, something a whole lot more dangerous, is the story Jonasson tells in the first half of his book. Along the way they must deal with angry people who do not think before they act (to say the least) or who are are unable to think at all. The heroine was supposed to save the King of Sweden--it was actually just a lot of mishaps that happened to fall in the right direction after falling in the wrong directions for the rest of the book. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Some of the plot was a bit cumbersome, but as they were ways of drawing issues together or pointing themes out, it's in my opinion excusable. • The book sucks you in immediately. You'd expect that, wouldn't you? Don't expect to know where the story is going, just give up and let the author lead you around by the nose. “Life, here I come!' If you liked Winston Groom's 'Forrest Gump,' you may enjoy this tale of twentieth-century international affairs with its somewhat cleverer protagonist. Much better than "the hundred year old man" . Find BookPage, About BookPage Much of the subject matter should not be humorous, but somehow it is. First of all, fantastic writing style. Cover of The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson. You won't be disappointed. As unlikely and funny as Jonas Jonasson's 2012 debut bestseller, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, his second novel follows a self-taught Soweto shanty-town girl called Nombeko who has the opportunity not just to save the king of Sweden, but also the world when she finds herself confined in a potato truck with the king and the Swedish prime minister in 2007. “In The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden, Jonas Jonasson unfurls a wide, whimsical net that readers will relish being caught up in.” (BookPage) “A funny and improbable tale with characters from South Africa to Sweden demonstrates how even the most seemingly … In The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden, Jonas Jonasson unfurls a wide, whimsical net that readers will relish being caught up in. Advertise Submission Guidelines, © 1996-2020 BookPage and ProMotion, inc. | 2143 Belcourt Avenue, Nashville, TN 37212. He wrote a manuscript, he sold all his possessions in Sweden and moved to a small town by Lake Lugano in Switzerland, only a few meters from the Italian border. Much of the subject matter should not be humorous, but somehow it is. The lowly look good, the mighty and the bureaucratic often look silly, the bigoted emphatically look ugly. REVIEW. It is still funny and clever, but the story gets a little long winded towards the end and while there is still plenty of action going on, so many improbably and hilariously weird circumstances, I just got a bit tired of it. But life's too short to force myself to complete a book that I'm clearly not enjoying, so there. In my opinion, Jonas Jonasson has a penchant for two things, long titles and an excellent command of comedy. We’d love your help. Did I mention the missing South African nuclear bomb? A FANTASTIC read! • One minute you're with three Chinese girls with a talent for faking antique gooses, the next you're watching a crazed man get attacked by a Swedish King. Library Oh yeah -- there are also some Chinese sisters who smuggle themselves in a bomb crate to escape from South Africa. Jana Hocking: How to tell if someone is really into you. If you like The Mouse That Roared, you might like The Girl who Saved the King of Sweden. This time around, I got bored. But this is the spice of the story. Hilarious scenes of a very Swedish monarch. Whereas I thoroughly enjoyed Jonasson's first book, this one was just absurd and silly and I did not really find it funny. Side splitting. She does not seek power, and only tries to survive and live a modest life. I put this book on hold while I took some other books on holidays and coming back to it was difficult and I had to make myself finish it. ”the girl who saved the King of Sweden” (largely from events of her own making) is a comic take on one Swede’s view of international history of the modern era. Second novel is rarely as good as the first one (Khaled Hosseini is the exception) as publishers expect too much and there is a special "pressure" on the author if the debut novel is great success... Sheila O'Flanagan wrote the good, honnest review I support 100%. Another really funny book by Jonas Jonasson, whilst dealing with important and difficult topics. Some are tossed out of helicopters. When there she meets a man who theoretically does not exist and who has a twin brother with the same name who is inspired to complete what his late father could not do and kill the king of Sweden. The story of THE GIRL WHO SAVED THE KING OF SWEDEN begins in June 2007. Her first act is to hire her disgraced boss as her own replacement in the ranks. This is one wacky, offbeat, deadpan humor story. Digital I hope he chooses to continue writing, as he has a devoted fan here. Two Mossad agents eventually murder her employer, and she outwits them and escapes to Sweden, but due to a mixup, ends up in possession of a missing South African atom bomb. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. You can still see all customer reviews for the product. Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2016. Hilarious and original. In Sweden, she settles in a bizarre commune including two unstable republicans determined to end the Swedish monarchy. The Girl Who Saved The King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson (Fourth Estate $33.99). 04/29/2014. The plucky and delightful protagonist is Nombeko, who at the start of the novel is fourteen and cleaning latrines in Soweto, her hometown. The story opens in Soweto with Nombeko, a fourteen year old latrine emptier (yes, that's this child's lifelong occupation, and she's one of the lucky ones who actually has a job). I didn't laugh or become even remotely amused throughout. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Could not finish. April 24th 2014 The plucky and delightful protagonist is Nombeko, who at the start of the novel is fourteen and cleaning latrines in Soweto, her hometown.

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