The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

by Jonas Jonasson

Things are what they are, and whatever will be will be.

‘Revenge is not a good thing,’ Allan warned him. ‘Revenge is like politics: one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.’

had been struck by love at first sight. And now, at second sight, he felt no different.

Politics was often not only unnecessary, but sometimes also unnecessarily complicated.