The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - Roy Bradbury Genre:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Loyalty or freedom

Loyalty or freedom

become a reality

all their prospects seem so hopeless

Tribune Tower

humour and tragedy

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - Roy Bradbury Genre:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Loyalty or freedomTHE GLOBAL BESTSELLER Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin. His one hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there. But, as it turns out, Allan will not . . . Escaping (in his slippers) through his bedroom window, into the flowerbed, Allan makes his getaway. And so begins his picaresque and unlikely journey involving criminals,