A Man Called Ove

@2@@20@The million-copy bestselling phenomenon, Fredrik Backman's heartwarming debut is a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step. @21@Perfect for fans of Rachel Joyce's @20@@18@The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, @19@Graeme Simsion's@18@ The Rosie Project and @19@David Nicholl's@18@ US.@19@@21@@3@@2@@20@@18@New York Times @19@bestseller@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@@21@@20@'Warm, funny, and almost unbearably moving' @18@Daily Mail@19@@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@'Rescued all those men who constantly mean to read novels but never get round to it' @18@Spectator@19@ Books of the Year@21@@3@@2@At first sight, Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - neighbours who can't reverse a trailer properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the vicious @18@coup d'etat@19@ that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents' Association. He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets.@3@@2@But isn't it rare, these days, to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and deed? Such unswerving conviction about what the world should be, and a lifelong dedication to making it just so?@3@@2@In the end, you will see, there is something about Ove that is quite irresistible...@3@

Product details

• Authors: Fredrick Backman, Fredrik Backman, Backman Fredrik
• Assisted by: Henning Koch (Translation)
• Publisher: Sceptre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.03.2015
• EAN: 9781444775815
• ISBN: 978-1-4447-7581-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Sceptre
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Schwedische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), FICTION / Humorous / General, Fiction in translation, Sweden, Humour, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Age groups: the elderly