The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Jonas Jonasson, 2009
A centenarian walks out of his nursing home and into a picaresque of vodka, atom bombs and historical cameos—comedy with a straight face.
Jonas Jonasson
Jonasson was a Swedish journalist and media entrepreneur before this debut novel, published when he was in his late forties, became an international bestseller.
Feels like memory, morality and wonder.
Death as sleep sounds restful until you try to think it through.
Imagine that, death was just like being asleep. Would he have time to think before it was all over? And would he have time to think that he had thought it? But wait, how much do you have to think before you have finished thinking? Books by Jonas Jonasson
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