Book description
It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson.
Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, he is waiting for
the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The Mayor is going to be
there. The press is going to be there. But, as it turns out, Allan is
not Slowly but surely Allan climbs out of his bedroom window, into
the flowerbed (in his slippers) and makes his getaway. And so begins
his picaresque and unlikely journey involving criminals, several
murders, a suitcase full of cash, and incompetent police. As his
escapades unfold, we learn something of Allan's earlier life in which
Â- remarkably Â- he helped to make the atom bomb, became friends with
American presidents, Russian tyrants, and Chinese leaders, and was a
participant behind the scenes in many key events of the twentieth
century. Already a huge bestseller across Europe, The Hundred-Year-Old
Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared is a fun and
feel-good book for all ages.
