Allan was exceptionally good at blowing things up.
His political ideology was
His daily philosophy was “Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.”
I liked Allan, the 100-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared just before his 100th birthday. We have stereotypes of what a 100-year-old man would be like but Allan doesn’t fit any mold either as a young or old person.
The story is told in present day as the adventure unfolds once Allan leaves his retirement home and inadvertently steals a suitcase full of money from a gang member at a bus station. As the tale is told, there are flashbacks of Allan’s life where he is inserted into most world events where blowing things up is a key incident.The Forrest Gump type of character-insertion was so ridiculous that it was hilarious.
Written in Swedish by Jonas Jonasson and translated Rod Bradbury, this was an absurd book that tickled me in the right places.
