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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared Condition:Well Read Their brief and passionate livesIt all starts on the one hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, he is waiting for the party he never wanted anyway to begin. The mayor is going to be there. The press is going to be there. But, as it turns out, Allan is not Slowly but surely Allan climbs out of his bedroom window, into the flowerbed (in his slippers) and makes his getaway. And so begins his picaresque and unlikely journey involving