The 100-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared

ISBN: 9781401324643 (pbk.) :
ISBN: 1401324649 (pbk.) :
Description physique: 384 p. ; 21 cm.
Éditeur: New York : Hyperion, c2012.

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The 100-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared / Jonas Jonasson ; translated from the Swedish by Rod Bradbury.

Jonasson, Jonas, 1961- (Auteur). Bradbury, Rod. (Auteur ajouté).

Résumé :

After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he’s still in good health. A big celebration is in the works for his 100th birthday, but Allan really isn’t interested (and he’d like a bit more control over his alcohol consumption), so he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey. It would be the adventure of a lifetime for anyone else, but Allan has a larger-than-life backstory: he has not only witnessed some of the most important events of the 20th century, but actually played a key role in them