Book Recommendation

I planned to do an "Intensive English Study Week" - unfortunately I got ill and slept A LOT! I still feel tired, dizzy and shivery but overall my health is better now. Or maybe it just seems so because, unlike yesterday, I managed to get out of my pyjama and put in my contact lenses. :D

 

As a positive result of lying around bored I finished one of the four English books I bought, called "The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared".

 

 

 

It's hard to give a short summary about this book, because it is NOTHING like you expect from the title. Allan Karlsson - Swede, centenarian and explosive expert - decides to leave everything (which is acutally not much) behind on his hundreth birthday. A story including murderes, thiefes and an elephant begins.

 

Next to that, Allan's past gets slowly revealed. Without taking much notice, Allan played an important role in almost any noticeable event of the 20th century. He, without any interest in politics and religions at all, saved the life of Franco and changed sides in the Spanish Civil War, met Harry Truman as well as Stalin, Churchill, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il and Mao Tse-tun, who sponsored him 15 years of holiday in Bali because Allan had saved the life of his wife.

 

I don't want to give away too much because I think this book is a must-read. The story is hilarious and every person has its own detailed and special characteristics.. Throughout the whole book, Allan Karlsson often reminded me of Forrest Gump - kind of naive in talking and behaving, without any clue what's really going on but shaping history with his careless actions.

 

I can only recommend you to read it, but for me it's time now to rest a little bit to get well again :)

BYE!