THE CENTENARIAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED
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The Book
The manuscript became a novel. The novel became a phenomenon in Sweden, and now it is about to reach the rest of the world.
On his hundredth birthday, just as the celebrations are about to begin out in the lounge in the old people's home, Allan Karlsson hastily decides that he wants nothing to do with the party. He climbs through his window and disappears - and soon he has turned the whole nation on its head. He does have some experience in these matters. He has previously done the same thing with the world.
FOLLOW THE MAP ON ALLAN
KARLSSON'S ADVENTURE OVER THE WORLD AND
DURING THE 20TH CENTURY
Tsar Nicolas
Gustav Fabergé
Vladimir Lenin
Miguel Primo de Rivera
Francisco Franco
Robert Oppenheimer
Harry S Truman
Soong May-ling
Eleonor Roosevelt
Jiang Ping
Winston Churchill
Tage Erlander
Joseph Stalin
Kim II Sung
Kim Jong II
Kirill Meretskov
Mao Tse Tung
Charles de Gaulle
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Sweden Moscow Stalingrad (Volgograd) Gulag camps Vladivostok Los Alamos The White House, Washington China Himalaya Tibet Afganistan Iran North Korea Bali Paris
Yxhult, Sweden, 1905
Allan Karlsson spent his childhood in a cottage, which is ultimately the victim of his passion for explosives.
As a resident in the explosives factory, he met Esteban, a friendship that gives Allan the opportunity to follow the republican Esteban to the Spanish Civil War.
Allan’s main mission on the republicans, as a specialist in explosives is to blow bridges to stop the fascists. He has change side though when he accidently saves the leader of the fascists, Generalissimo Franco’s life and is invited by him to stay on their side.
Here, Allan decides to move on and leaves for the United States of America, with a recommendation letter from Franco.
Ellis Island, United States, 1939
The immigration authority at Ellis Iceland shows at first some hesitation about Alan's recommendation letter from General Franco. But explosives experts are called for, and the protagonist is sent to the military base in Los Alamos.
Allan Karlsson starts his job as a waiter at the US-based nuclear program. He has the opportunity to meet Vice President Harry S. Truman and Robert Oppenheimer. To the latter he brings up an idea that will change the world forever.
Harry S. Truman, now president of the United States, sends Allan Karlsson to Shanghai to assist Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Song Meiling struggling against the Communists.
