A charming book , certainly shadows of Forrest Gump but so Swedish at heart and much more naughty than Gump.
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After a long and eventful life Allan Karlsson is moved to a nursing home to await the inevitable. But his health refuses to fail and as his 100th birthday looms a huge party is planned. Allan wants no part of it and decides to climb out the window... Charming and funny; a European publishing phenomenon.
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The One Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson
- Language
- Released
- 2014
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jonas Jonasson
- Publisher
- Allen and Unwin
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 402
- ISBN10
- 174331793X
- ISBN13
- 9781743317938
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Humor, Contemporary Fiction, Politics, Friendship, Realistic Fiction, Gifts for grandpa, Comedies, Adapted for Film, English Literature, Escape, Debut, Seniors, Atomic Bomb, Picaresque Novels, Century (Age)
- First published
- 2009
- Original title
- Hundraäringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- After a long and eventful life Allan Karlsson is moved to a nursing home to await the inevitable. But his health refuses to fail and as his 100th birthday looms a huge party is planned. Allan wants no part of it and decides to climb out the window... Charming and funny; a European publishing phenomenon.