Jonas Jonasson: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Spanish language, 2015)
416 pages
Spanish language
Published June 28, 2015
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Swedish: Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann), also known as The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared in the US, is a 2009 comic novel by the Swedish author Jonas Jonasson. The Swedish version was first published on 9 September 2009, and the English version on 12 July 2012. In 2018, a sequel to the book, The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man, was published.
Creo que es un libro de lectura ligera, un pequeño bálsamo. El autor tiene pequeños guiños durante toda la historia en múltiples formatos. Queda eso sí, siempre en el límite el trato implícito de credibilidad entre autor y lector, pero creo que eso es justamente lo que busca.
Lo recomendaría sin dudarlo, para personas de consumo recurrente de la lectura y buen humor.
Sure, I maybe part of a minority that didn't enjoy this book, but nevertheless I did not.
I read a review after I was well into the book that described it this way: Starts off funny, then gets a bit tedious, and finally just annoying. The immediate sorry is actually intriguing, 100 year old man runs away, stumbles into excessive amounts of money, gets involved with an eclectic mix of characters, etc., etc. But that story is only about 1/3 of the book.
You are often taken away from that to learn about Allan's crazy life. His experiences with the authors caricatures of real people and world leaders... Only to see things drone on and on.
Then when the story actually ends, you've still got about 1/5 of the book left to hear about absolute nonsense.
I really expected more from something so highly talked about.
An amazing tale.
Really enjoyed this silly, feel good, book that has a healthy dose of the absurd.
