The Hundred- year-old Man Who Climed Out of the Window and Disappeared

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.

ISBN:	978-1-84391-483-9
EAN:	9781843914839
Počet stran	400 stran
Datum vydání	8. 8. 2014
Vazba	kniha, brožovaná vazba
Jazyk	anglický
Autor:	Jonas Jonasson
Nakladatelství	Nakladatelství Slovart, s.r.o.