Rachel Willson-Broyles Livres

The brand-new adventure from the beloved author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.

Tout semblait vouer Nombeko Mayeki, petite fille noire née dans le plus grand ghetto d'Afrique du Sud, à mener une existence de dur labeur et à mourir jeune dans l'indifférence générale. Tout sauf le destin. Et sa prodigieuse faculté à manier les nombres. Ainsi. Nombeko, l'analphabète qui sait compter, se retrouve propulsée loin de son pays et de la misère, dans les hautes sphères de la politique internationale. Lors de son incroyable périple à travers le monde, notre héroïne rencontre des personnages hauts en couleur, parmi lesquels deux frères physiquement identiques et pourtant très différents, une jeune fille en colère et un potier paranoïaque. Elle se met à dos les services secrets les plus redoutés au monde et se retrouve enfermée dans un camion de pommes de terre. A ce moment-là, l'humanité entière est menacée de destruction. Dans sa nouvelle comédie explosive, Jonas Jonasson s'attaque, avec l'humour déjanté qu'on lui connaît, aux préjugés, et démolit pour de bon le mythe selon lequel les rois ne tordent pas le cou aux poules.

It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un

**SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM** **THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE-BESTSELLER** 'A coming-of-age-story to be loved everywhere in the world' FREDRIK BACKMAN, author of A MAN CALLED OVE ___________________________________________ The international sensation: the story of a young Sámi girl's coming-of-age, and a powerful fable about family, identity and justice Nine-year-old Elsa lives just north of the Arctic Circle. She and her family are Sámi - Scandinavia's indigenous people - and make their living herding reindeer. One morning when Elsa goes skiing alone, she witnesses a man brutally killing her reindeer calf, Nástegallu. Elsa recognises the man but refuses to tell anyone - least of all the Swedish police force - about what she saw. Instead, she carries her secret as a dark weight on her heart. Elsa comes of age fighting two wars: one within her community, where male elders expect young women to know their place; and against the ever-escalating wave of prejudice and violence against the Sámi. When Elsa finds herself the target of the man who killed her reindeer calf all those years ago, something inside of her finally breaks. The guilt, fear, and anger she's been carrying since childhood come crashing over her like an avalanche, and will lead Elsa to a final catastrophic confrontation.