How long does it take to read The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden?
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson takes about 7 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 13 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2014. 394 pages, about 108,350 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at ten, she quickly learns that the world expects nothing more from her than to die young, be it from drugs, alcohol, or just plain despair. But Nombeko has grander plans. She learns to read and write, and at just fifteen, using her cunning and fearlessness, she makes it out of Soweto with millions of smuggled diamonds in her possession. Then things take a turn for the worse ... Nombeko ends up the prisoner of an incompetent engineer in a research facility working on South Africa's secret nuclear arsenal. Yet the unstoppable Nombeko pulls off a daring escape to Sweden, where she meets twins named Holger One and Holger Two, who are carrying out a mission to bring down the Swedish monarchy ... by any means necessary. Nombeko's life ends up hopelessly intertwined with the lives of the twins, and when the twins arrange to kidnap the Swedish king and prime minister, it is up to our unlikely heroine to save the day -- and possibly the world.
Subjects: South Africans, Nuclear weapons, Diamond smugglers, Kings and rulers, Fiction, Subversive activities
