If you chuckled at the recent publishing sensation, The Rosie Project, you may enjoy this charming and disarming novel, reviewed for the online book club by avid reader Claudine Bakker who lives in the USA.
Jonas Jonasson is a former Swedish journalist and
media consultant who wrote his first novel, The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared, and saw it runaway as an instant success.
This is a silly and wonderful novel that will chase away the blues
After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home. He decides to escape the celebration of his 100th birthday party and climbs out of the window and embarks on a hilarious and eventful journey,
involving a suitcase filled with money and some unpleasant criminals.
Karlsson
started out in munitions as a boy and somehow becomes witness to some of the
most important events of the 20th century as he travels the world.
Jonas Jonasson is presently working on his 2nd book about a
South African in Soweto who turns the World upside down and Jonas claims is
very funny. I will be looking out for this book as I hope it will be as
charming and disarming as his first novel. Meanwhile, why not discover this new talent... the Scandinavians are proving brilliant at writing worldwide best-sellers! >>>
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