The Centenarian Who Climbed Out Through the Window and Disappeared

Here's a new book that's just been acquired by my former agent in Spain, if you want to keep up on what's going on in Europe before it hits the States: The Centenarian Who Climbed Out Through the Window and Disappeared

Most sold book in Sweden in 2010! "After a long and eventful life Allan ends up in a nursing home believing it to be the last stop. The only problem is that his health refuses to let him down and one day he turns 100. Everybody is expecting him at the big celebration: the mayor, the press, and the entire staff. But Allan doesn’t want to be a part of it. And he decides to climb out the window. "The Centenarian Who Climbed Out Through the Window and Disappeared is the story about Allan Karlsson’s month long trip through Sweden. A trip that is complicated by his trouble with the police and a local gang that wants their suitcase back, which Allan accidentally took from a bus on a railway station. But at the same time the book is a journey through the 20th century. It turns out that he has not only witnessed some of the most important events of the century but actually caused them. Starting as an expert in explosion he ends up being involved in the development of the atom bomb an travels throughout the world meeting the most important and controversial figures such as Stalin, Churchill, Trumann, Mao, Franco, De Gaulle etc. "It is a book full of a warm humour that draws on social and political satire as well as World History. The Centenarian Who Climbed Out Through the Window and Disappeared is the author’s debut novel and already a big success amongst the readers in his home country." First published by Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2009.