Hachette Books</br></br>Product Description</br></br>The international publishing sensation--over six million copies sold worldwide!<br><br>A reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert with a fondness for vodka) decides it's not too late to start over . . .<br><br>After a long and eventful life?? Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home?? believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health?? and in one day?? he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works?? but Allan really isn't interested (and he'd like a bit more control over his vodka consumption). So he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey?? involving?? among other surprises?? a suitcase stuffed with cash?? some unpleasant criminals?? a friendly hot-dog stand operator?? and an elephant (not to mention a death by