The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - Tapa blanda

'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

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 - remarkably - 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, feel-good book for all ages.