The elderly protagonists break into literature little, but when they do it is with all the honors.
Those chosen as the main protagonists of the novels are not usually elderly. Instead, literature leaves us great examples of all genres where the elderly protagonists they work and they do it very well.
This is one list that aims to touch all tastes and styles, from humor to magical realism through dramatic narrative or intrigue novel. Different genres, different erasThey only have in common that they are great works starring the elderly. Let each one choose their own.
The Grandpa Who Jumped Out of a Window and Ran away, by Jonas Jonasson.
A man escapes from the nursing home on his 100th birthday. With a suitcase owned by a criminal and one of his thugs dead, he will begin a humor-spattered getaway and delusional memories of his life, from his passage through Siberia to his meeting with Mao Tsé Tung, passing through the crossing of Tibet on foot or his contact with the Nazi regime. The history of the XNUMXth century is the second protagonist of this novel. Several characters join his getaway, including an elephant escaped from a circus. An essential novel for a century-long afternoon of humor and satire.
Looking for a grandfather to share a flat, by Vincent pichon-Varin.
An emotional, dramatic and fun light novel that encourages the reader to enjoy life until the last moment. Six friends between the ages of 60 and 85 share a flat in Paris, they do gymnastics every day and live with their personality and health ailments. Jean is the owner of the last drag queen cabaret in Montmartre; Kathy an actress without much fortune; Monica, a former Bon Marché saleswoman turned into the neighborhood informant; Paul, former detective at the mythical Hôtel Lutetia; Blanche a writer, who spends her days reading for various publishers and Honorine, an old curmudgeon. When they discover that they are trying to scam Jean into turning their cabaret into a luxury hotel, they are involved in a frenetic adventure in which it has a place a lot of humor and some sadness.
Clara and the Kangaroo Grandmothers, by Tania Krätschmar.
Clara, inspired by her mother's vitality, decides to mount a babysitting agency for women over 50 yearss, whose experience with children can be useful to many families. Their first three candidates will spend three months In Berlin taking care of the children of three families, an experience that will change their lives.
Sweet and light novel that It delves into the empty nest syndrome and the ability to reinvent themselves of women dedicated to the family when their children no longer need them.
Himmler's Cook, by Franz-Olivier Giesbert.
This story tells the harsh and cruel life of Rose, a woman of Armenian origin about to turn one hundred years old and he does it with a touch of humor wrapped in the protagonist's desire for revenge that makes the reader go from one emotion to another as if he were on a merry-go-round.
Himmler's cook lives the Armenian extermination in Turkey, the Nazi regime from within and many others crucial moments in the history of Europe in the XNUMXth century.
The sense of humor, the sexual desire and the desire for revenge keep this unforgettable old woman alive who has already gone down in the history of literature as a great character.
The elderly protagonists share their memories of the history of the last century.
Noah's Notebook by Nicholas Sparks.
Noah is an old man who comes to the residence to visit his partner Allie. Every day he reads the same notebook, which tells the story of a Southerner, Noah himself, who returns from World War II with the memory of a summer love. The shadow that haunts him is Allie, whom he has not seen for 14 years. The reunion unleashes a world of passion, loyalty and dilemmas between the two young men. Back at the residence, we discover that Allie suffers Alzheimer and that Noah reads her, every day, the story of his own love.
Three Grandmothers and a Dead Cook, by Minna Lindgren.
First installment of the "Helsinki Trilogy", is a humor novel starring a group of nonagenarians.
Siiri, Irma and Anna-Liisa are three ninety-year-old widows living in the twilight forest, a private apartment center for the elderly Helsinki. The residence is a sinister place in which the elderly are deprived of their identity, surrounded every day by lazy and inexperienced nurses.
Mysterious murders begin to take place at the residence...
This trilogy of intrigue and humor continues with Three Grandmothers and a Round Trip Jeweler and Three Grandmothers and a Sabotage Plan.
Love in times of anger, by Gabriel García Marquez.
Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza star in a passionate love story that knows neither of years nor of death. In a country fueled by anger, two septuagenarians they will meet again after having lived thousands of stories and experiences.
Death in the Vicarage, by Agatha Christie.
First play in which Miss Marple appears, in 1930, the famous elderly detective of the Great Lady of Crime.
El Colonel Lucius Protheroe has a repulsive personality, so much so that he manages to extract the following words from the pastor: "Whoever kills Colonel Protheroe will be giving a service to the world." Protheroe is murdered at the pastor's house and, when this happens, Miss Marple begins to investigate.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.
A man who is born old and, as the years go by, recovers his youth, allowing you to see society and the people around you from a different point of view. It was first published in 1922.
In 2008 it was taken to the cinema, in one of the most acclaimed films of this century.
The Unusual Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce.
A 65-year-old man, after retiring, leaves home to write a letter. He decides to continue walking to the other side of England to give encouragement to a cancer patient. His personal injuries will accompany him on the journey.