Reading - The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

 

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 Major 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 do 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 mementous events of the twentieth century.