A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman Miren and Bittori have lived

Miren and Bittori have lived side by side in a small Basque town all their lives

one of the most daring and ambitious novelists of our time

Translator: John Sturrock

Kazue departs to follow her impulses wherever they might lead

by family and love and other hostile forces

A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman Miren and Bittori have livedOve is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots joggers, neighbours who can't reverse a trailer properly and shop assistants who talk in code. 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? In the end, you will see, there is something about Ove that is