She started working as a five-year-old, got orphaned as a ten-year-old, and run over as a fifteen-year-old. Nothing suggested that she would do anything but live a while in the shed in South Africa's largest slum, and then die without being missed by anyone. If she hadn't been who she was, but then that is who she was. Nombeko Mayeki was the analphabet who could enumerate. A combination of fate and talent leads her away from Soweto - to international big politics, to the other side of the earth, to two identical yet very different brothers. On the journey she enrages the worlds most feared secret services before she one day finds herself locked inside the hold of a potato-van.

Publication Year: 2013