![]() ![]() There he meets a young man with a silver suitcase and offers to look after it while the young man goes to the washroom. Slightly weighed down by his old age, Allan strolls towards the direction of the town’s train station. He climbs down on the flower bed from the ground floor window of his bedroom and embarks on an unplanned journey. The residents and the director of the nursing home have arranged for a celebration, but Allan has different plans. After spending a good hundred years, Allan climbs out of the window of his old people’s home. Through the life events of the protagonist, Allan Emanuel Karlsson, you would go on a trip down the memory lane of some of the most historic moments in world history. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have never come across a book that has this long a title which truly explains the main storyline. So this year as a part of the reading challenge “read a book that you started last year but did not complete” I thought of picking it up again. I started reading this book last year in 2018 but for some reason could not go through with it. ‘The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared’ is the debut novel of Jonas Jonasson, a Swedish journalist, and writer. ![]()
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