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Recently widowed, Mrs Lirriper devotes her energies to attending to the needs of her lodgers. But when a newborn child is abandoned to her care, her responsibilities extend to new levels. Enlisting long-time lodger, the Major, into the role of guardian, the two develop an increasing affection for the boy.

It's 1923, and the young Rikkat is being brought up in the belief that her life will be the devoted to the art of calligraphy. That same year, Ataturk's republic breaks away from the Islamic tradition and progressively abolishes the Arabic language and scripts. This work talks about the mysteries of life, time, death, and writing as an art.

On his one-hundredth birthday Allan Karlsson makes his escape from the old people's home and embarks on an unlikely and momentous adventure. The international bestselling phenomenon by Swedish sensation Jonas Jonasson.