Mado kara nigeta 100-sai rōjin
By: Yonasu Yonason cho ; Yanase Naoki yaku
Contributors: Yanase, Naoki, 1943- translator
Edition: Shohan
Published: 2014
Language: jpn
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9784890137060
Subjects: Older people; Fiction
Other titles: Mado kara nigeta hyakusai rōjin; Hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared
Work titles: Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann
Description: 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.
Notes: Translation of: Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann.