"Statistically, the probability that an illiterate woman born in the 1960s in Soweto would grow up and one day be locked in a truck full of potatoes together with the King of Sweden and his Prime Minister is one in forty‑five billion six hundred sixty‑six million two hundred twelve thousand eight hundred ten. According to the calculations of said illiterate."
Everything seemed to condemn Nombeko Mayeki, a little black girl born in the largest ghetto of South Africa, to a life of hard labour and to die young in general indifference. Everything except fate. And her prodigious ability with numbers. Thus Nombeko, the illiterate who could count, is propelled far from her country and poverty into the upper echelons of international politics.
During her incredible journey around the world, our heroine meets colourful characters, among them two brothers who are physically identical yet very different, an angry young woman and a paranoid potter. She puts the most feared intelligence services in the world against her and ends up locked in a truck of potatoes. At that moment, all humanity is threatened with destruction.

Themes: Politics, Apartheid, Humour, Swedish literature, Friendship

Goodreads: 3.78