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) & makes his getaway. & so begins his picaresque & unlikely journey involving criminals several murders a suitcase full of cash & incompetent police. As his escapades unfold we learn something of Allan's earlier life in which
- remarkably
- he helped to make the atom bomb became friends with American presidents Russian tyrants & Chinese leaders & 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 & Disappeared is a fun feel-good book for all ages.