TY - BOOK AU - Jonasson, Jonas TI - The 100 year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared: SN - 978-1-84391-372-6 U1 - 839.738 23 PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - Hesperus Press N1 - The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared is the first novel by former Swedish journalist Jonas Jonasson. An action-adventure story with elements of comedy and historical fiction, the novel won the Swedish Booksellers Award in 2010; the German Pioneer Prize and the Danish Audiobook Award in 2011; and the Prix Escapades, an exclusive French literary competition, in 2012. Both critics and readers worldwide embraced the book. Within 12 years, it sold five million copies, spawned a motion picture, and compelled Jonasson to write a sequel, The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man ER -