The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared [Mass Market Paperback] Jonasson, Jonas

from cameling

If you want a hilarious history lesson of not just events in the last 80 or so years, but of political leaders such as Stalin, Churchill, Kim Jong Il, the Shah of Iran, Henry Truman and Mao Tze Tung to name but a few, this is the book to be read and chortled over. Allan Karlsson of Sweden, living...

from SandDune

On his one hundredth birthday Allan Karlsson climbs out of the window of his room on the ground floor of the Old People's Home where he lives, less than an hour before his birthday party is due to start. Escaping from the strict regime enforced by the bad-tempered Director Alice, of no-smoking, n...

from jnwelch

"Chief Inspector Aronsson felt a little disappointed at the way things had developed. It would have been much more fun to save a geriatric from the clutches of a gang of criminals, rather than - as now - failing to save the criminals from the geriatric." The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out t...

from bookwyrmm

One of the funniest books that I had never heard of, but it goes a tad too far in parts.

from mbmackay

This is a fun book - and should be read by older people as a guide to one version of aging, and by younger people as a forewarning of what their parents may get up to!