Description
Title: One Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window & Disappeared,The
Author: JONASSON JONAS
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/04/2014
Imprint: PENGUIN BOOKS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
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 one-hundredth 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.
ISBN: 9781743317938
Dimension: 198mm X 128mm
Pages: 400
Edition: 01