English Summary/英文概要： A FUNNY, MOVING, WISE BOOK The world changes; the Grump doesn’t. Nowadays folks and touch screens demand a bit of delicacy, while the Grump belongs to the heavy-handed generation. He lived through the war (WWII), shortages and reconstruction, and he’s used to doing everything for himself. But now the Grump’s beloved wife is lying in the inpatient ward at the local hospital and his son wants to put him in a nursing home. As the boundaries of life shrink, this old codger’s battle against modernity grows. Every day the Grump goes and feeds and cares for his demented wife, but there’s no way he’ll suffer the same fate. The Grump will not put himself at the mercy of others. He intends on leaving this world wearing his own boots, not a pair of hospital booties. Which is why he has to prepare for his funeral in plenty of time. He builds a coffin, writes his memoirs, and of course plans the menu and music for the memorial service. He also needs to get his last will and testament down on paper, but the ink in his heirloom pen has run dry. The Grump and his son head out to crisscross Finland by car, hunting for ink in a world that has moved on to laser printers. These days, folks pay with bonus cards instead of cash. Spoons have been replaced by chopsticks. Buttermilk by red wine. And women do men’s work. Old folks are rehabilitated as if they were world-class athletes, but they’re spoken to as if they were children. Which isn’t to say there aren’t a few good things about modern times, too. The Grump learns that you can use one of those handheld televisions to journey into the past, that flat screens show news from the era when news anchors were still gentlemen and Finland did well in the Olympics. The Grump, who has spent his whole life in his own neck of the woods, is able to explore the streets of Vladivostok and Jerusalem online. During his travels, the Grump reflects back on the beginnings of his life and the lives of loved ones, to birth and childhood. He realizes that the most important things never change. Babies, love, taking care of each other. He even admits to having been wrong during the course of his life. Twice. At the end of the story, the old man decides turn his coffin into a crib for a new-born member of his family: “I’ll make a gift, one where a little feller’ll be happy banging on the slats and sleeping and just having him all kindsa happy times.” The humour of Tuomas Kyrö’s Happy Days of the Grump springs from the main character’s inimitable attitude and tenacious resistance to modern vanities. It is a book that is fun, moving, and wise.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《百歲老人翹家去》芬蘭版！
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爆笑、感人、又充滿智慧的故事
世界在改變，老爹古輪普永遠不變！

現代人什麼事情都要低頭滑一下螢幕，而經歷過二戰的老爹古輪普(the Grump)則是習慣什麼粗活都要自己做。但如今太太住院，自己也快被兒子丟包安養院，生活的界線不斷限縮，這位古怪老人與現代世界的戰爭開始升溫。

古輪普每日到醫院照顧太太，但他絕不讓自己落得同樣下場，也絕不要別人同情。他要穿自己的靴子離開人世，而不要在醫院等死。為此他決定開始準備自己的葬禮，他用木頭釘一具自己專用的棺材，還寫了回憶錄。當然，告別式上用的音樂以及手冊也要準備好。就在古輪普準備親筆寫下遺囑時，他發現傳家筆居然沒墨水了，於是他與兒子開始坐車四處尋找墨水，卻進入雷射印表機早已盛行的現代世界。

原來這段時間，人們已經用儲值卡取代現金。 用筷子取代湯匙。 用紅酒取代酪乳。 而且女人也做男人的工作。

現代生活也有美好的事物。古輪普學到，原來可以用手持電視來趟時光旅行，平板螢幕能將古早時代立即展現在他眼前，在那時代，芬蘭在奧運會上的表現還很亮眼……現代生活的美好不只如此，古輪普一輩子都窩在芬蘭小鎮，現在居然能透過網路到海參崴和耶路撒冷的街道上探險。 這趟旅行中，他開始回想自己的出生、他的童年以及他所愛之人的生命。他發現，既使物換星移，最重要的事情永不會改變：小孩、愛、人與人互相關懷的心。

故事最後，古輪普將自己的棺材改造成嬰兒床，迎接他們家的新成員：「我會親手完成這份禮物，讓小傢伙開心地在板子上蹦跳、睡覺，享受所有屬於他的美好時光。」

生於1974年，為芬蘭新生代最有才華、多產且廣受讚譽的作家之一。曾於2005年獲得Prize Kalevi Jantti文學獎，2006年獲得Young Aleksis Prize 文學獎。現在庫倫將他的時間花在十年前討厭的事情上：跨國滑雪及違反自己的寫作原則。

Tuomas Kyro (b. 1974) is one of themost versatile, prolific, and acclaimed Finnish authors of his generation. Kyro says that he decided immediately upon the release of his debut work that he would write everthing he could come up with himself and everything anyone commissioned. Nowadays Kyro spends his time doing the things he detested ten years ago: cross-country skiing and violating his literary principles. He also appears on the television program Good and Bad News.