One hundred years and a suitcase of money to boot - Jonasson Jonas

The local boss arrives at the nursing home for a gala dinner on the occasion of Mr. Carlson’s centenary, but the hero of the day, who doesn’t like fuss, climbs out the window in slippers and disappears. During his first hour of freedom, he manages to rob a racketeer bandit, and now both the police and bandits are chasing the old man. But this is not the first time Allan Carlson has found himself in trouble and does not lose his optimism and sense of humor - an adventurer and specialist in bombs and explosions, he lives by the principle “everything is as it is, and it will be as it will be.” Allan does not think into the future, is not interested in politics, does not seek fame, but turns out to be almost a key figure in all the most important events of the twentieth century: he is on friendly terms with Truman, he has dinner with Stalin, he is supplied with money by Mao Zedong, Oppenheimer listens to him. In this very funny fairy tale for adults, Jonas Jonasson manages to laugh at the detective story, the novel of education, the family saga, the sentimental love story and offer his version of the history of the twentieth century, without even for a second interrupting the exciting narrative with chases, escapes and bribes. The famous comedy director Felix Herngren is now making a film based on this novel, which remains the best-selling book in Sweden for the second year.