The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

Jonas Jonasson was born in Sweden in 1962. He has a professional background as a journalist and media consultant. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared is his first novel which Jonasson describes as 'an intelligent, very stupid book'. He is currently working on his second.

出版者:Hesperus Press

作者:Jonas Jonasson

页数:400

译者:Rod Bradbury

出版时间:2012-7-12

价格:GBP 8.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781843913726

图书标签:小说幽默瑞典JonasJonasson英文原版外国文学Humor/Thriller英文小說

It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, he is waiting for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The mayor is going to be there. The press is going to be there. But, as it turns out, Allan is not...Slowly but surely Allan climbs out of his bedroom window, into the flowerbed (in his slippers) and makes his getaway. And so begins his picaresque and unlikely journey involving criminals, several murders, a suitcase full of cash, and incompetent police. As his escapades unfold, we learn something of Allan's earlier life in which - remarkably - he helped to make the atom bomb, became friends with American presidents, Russian tyrants, and Chinese leaders, and was a participant behind the scenes in many key events of the twentieth century. Already a huge bestseller across Europe, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared is a fun, feel-good book for all ages. Translated by Rod Bradbury.

读后感

电影英文版在英国刚公映。不过整场只有我一个人实在好寂寞。虽然一个人抱着爆米花还是笑的好开心。豆瓣电影居然还没有这部片子。只能跑到书评这边来点赞。实在太强大。真是完全败给这只百岁老大爷了。让我们这种天生幸运E的倒霉孩子情何以堪。近几年看到最好的喜剧片。秒杀昨天...

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有点儿穿越小说的意思，挺喜感的。。。

扣一星：太罗嗦

超级可爱的一本书，贯穿二战，冷战直到现在。作者构思天马行空，主人公Allan不仅以百岁老人的身份【误】杀了两个蠢货，年轻时更是把二战及冷战时期数一数二的大人物见了个遍（什么罗斯福杜鲁门，被老蒋和夫人追杀竟阴差阳错救了江青后又在朝鲜落难时被毛大大认出并相救...丘吉尔斯大林...一个没跑掉）扯得不要不要的，标准瑞典风~

這是「阿甘正傅」心靈雞湯版嗎？不管是歷史事件大串燒，還是跳窗逃亡經歷都太輕易兒戲太造作表面，只要保持正面思維即可，反正作者都安排好了~對書中人物讀下來一點感覺都沒有，總之最後一定圓滿，哈哈哈，完了。還不是太好笑 ~

YH送的法文版，豆瓣里没有。一个百岁的老头不愿庆生，从养老院出逃，故事分两条线，一是他在路上的离奇遭遇，二是他的一生回放：给奥本海默原子弹的灵感，救过江青，得罪过斯大林，又在金日成面前被毛泽东救了。。。黑色幽默，轻松愉悦，可此外还有啥？畅销书，不过如此。