by Aseem Gupta | Apr 29, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Jonas Jonasson did not originally intend to send Allan Karlsson on another adventure. His first Hundred-Year-Old Man novel had used Allan’s improbable life to wander through twentieth-century history, placing an apolitical Swedish explosives expert beside dictators,...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 16, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Jonas Jonasson begins The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared with what should be an ending. Allan Karlsson is one hundred years old, living in an old people’s home, and expected to spend his birthday being ceremonially celebrated by...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 3, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
History usually reaches us after uncertainty has disappeared. D-Day succeeded, John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Apollo 11 returned safely from the Moon, Britain never fought the Soviet Union in a nuclear war, and Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. was killed moments after...
