One-Hundred Year Old Man #01: One-Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, The

One-Hundred Year Old Man #01: One-Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, The
Jonas Jonasson
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 400pg
1 Apr 2014 AU
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9781743317938
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Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin. His onehundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there. But, as it turns out, Allan will not... Escaping (in his slippers) through his bedroom window, into the flowerbed, Allan makes his getaway. And so begins his picaresque and unlikely journey involving a suitcase full of cash, a few thugs, a very friendly hot-dog stand operator, a few deaths, an elephant and incompetent police. As his escapades unfold, Allan's earlier life is revealed. A life in which - remarkably - he played a key role behind the scenes in some of the momentous events of the twentieth century. The One-Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared is a charming, warm and funny novel, beautifully woven with history and politics.

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'Completely crazy, an incredibly funny story' Aftonbladet, Sweden 'First-rate' Der Spiegel, Germany 'Swedish black comic novel that reads like a road trip with Forrest Gump at the wheel' NU.nl, Netherlands 'Dynamite comedy' Le Figaro, France 'Overflowing with humour' El Mundo, Spain 'Bestseller joins the Nordic invasion of Britain. Hesperus Press... is likely to show its bigger rivals how wrong they were to turn it down' The Observer, UK
Jonas Jonasson was born in Sweden in 1962. A former journalist and media consultant, he is now writing his second novel.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781743317938
Published: 1 Apr 2014
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 400

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