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

Jonas Jonasson

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

On his hundredth birthday, just as the celebrations are about to begin out in the lounge in the old people's home, Allan Karlsson hastily decides that he wants nothing to do with the party. He climbs through his window and disappea
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On his hundredth birthday, just as the celebrations are about to begin out in the lounge in the old people's home, Allan Karlsson hastily decides that he wants nothing to do with the party. He climbs through his window and disappears - and soon he has turned the whole nation on its head. He does have some experience in these matters. He has previously done the same thing with the world.

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Jonas Jonasson

After a long career as a journalist, media consultant and television producer, Jonas Jonasson decided to start a new life. He wrote a manuscript, he sold all his possessions in Sweden and moved to a small town by Lake Lugano in Switzerland, only a few meters from the Italian border. The manuscript became a novel. The novel became a phenomenon in Sweden, and now it is about to reach the rest of the world.

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