El abuelo que saltó por la ventana y se largó

Synopsis of El abuelo que saltó por la ventana y se largó

«El abuelo que saltó por la ventana y se largó» is the humor novel by Jonas Jonasson (Círculo de Lectores, hardcover, 393 pages, Spanish).

The protagonist, Allan Karlsson, escapes from the retirement home on his hundredth birthday and gets caught up in a series of absurd adventures. With humor and an unprejudiced outlook, the novel mixes delirious situations with encounters with singular characters and celebrates the freedom to live and the ability to reinvent oneself.

This Spanish edition is a translation by Sofía Pascual Pape of the Swedish original Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann, originally published in 2009. It is book 1 of the «El abuelo» series.

For readers of humor and adventure novels with elderly protagonists, with an absurd and optimistic tone.