For starters, there won’t even be any vodka! After careful consideration, he climbs out of his window and slowly walks away from all the people attending his celebration. It’s his one-hundredth birthday and the care home he lives in is throwing him a party, but not one Allan has any interest in attending. We meet Allan Karlsson as he’s considering his escape. Now, at last, it’s available in the UK, but will we find it as charming as everyone else? Let’s find out. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson is already a global smash hit, selling over two million copies in over thirty counties. 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.The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson A life in which - remarkably - he played a key role behind the scenes in some of the momentous events of the twentieth century. As his escapades unfold, Allan's earlier life is revealed. 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. Įscaping (in his slippers) through his bedroom window, into the flowerbed, Allan makes his getaway. His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin. Charming and funny a European publishing phenomenon. Allan wants no part of it and decides to climb out the window. But his health refuses to fail and as his 100th birthday looms a huge party is planned.
After a long and eventful life Allan Karlsson is moved to a nursing home to await the inevitable.
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