by Jonas Jonasson · Debutxaca · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788418132810
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A prejudiced old man, Allan Karlsson, decides that he is not willing to give up the pleasures of life and embarks on a delirious journey through the history of the 20th century that will make you laugh out loud. This book has been awarded the prize for the best book by Swedish booksellers and has sold 8 million copies in 40 countries. According to Allan, all the conflicts of humanity are based on the idea that 'You are a fool. No, you're more of a fool. No, you're more of a fool', but everything can be solved with a bottle of brandy and the desire to leave everything behind and look to the future. Allan turns one hundred years old and, instead of celebrating it in the residence where he lives, he decides to jump out the window and flee to the station, taking with him a suitcase full of money that he only had to watch. From there, a bizarre chase begins in which Allan overcomes all difficulties thanks to his stoic calm and the help of a group of picturesque friends he meets along the way. This adventure alternates with the story of Allan's life, a normal and ordinary man, an explosives specialist, apolitical and uneducated, but who does not bend before power. How is it possible that Allan dines with future President Truman? And that he knows Churchill, Mao, Franco, De Gaulle or that, in a moment of alcoholic euphoria, he helps Stalin to manufacture the atomic bomb?
Pär-Ola Jonas Jonasson is a Swedish journalist and writer, best known as the author of the best-seller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.
