by Jonas Jonasson
Wow, what a tome of a book! Very detailed, very political, quite long (387 pages!), but quite enjoyable. I got quite irritated at times with his form of conversations - indirect rather than direct speech. A fascinating alternative history lesson too!
Allan Karlsson is in an old people's home approaching his 100th birthday. The home plan to throw him a party, but Allan doesn't plan to be part of it, so he climbs out of his ground floor flat window and starts on quite an adventure - unwittingly a life of crime - and finds himself wanted for murder (but completely innocent). The chapters alternate between his centenarian self, and his colourful and eventful life from birth to the present day - how he managed to meet the most powerful people in the world and be part of the most important world changing events (sometimes being the cause of them). You grow fond of Allan's character as he seems both politically innocent, naive and ignorant, but astute and aware at the same time.
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