TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jonas Jonasson
TI  - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
SN  - 9780349141817
AV  - PT9877.2.O537 
U1  - 839.738 
PB  - Hachette UK
N2  - Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin. His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there. But, as it turns out, Allan will not . . . Escaping (in his slippers) through his bedroom window, into the flowerbed, Allan 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, Allan's earlier life is revealed. A life in which - remarkably - he played a key role behind the scenes in some of the momentous events of the twentieth century. Translated by Roy Bradbury
ER  -