Fredrik Backman

Ove ist 59. Er fährt Saab. Und wir alle kennen jemanden wie ihn: den grummeligen Nachbarn von nebenan, der kontrolliert, ob der Müll richtig getrennt ist, und heimlich die Falschparker aufschreibt.Doch niemand wird als grummeliger alter Nachbar geboren, und einst war auch Ove glücklich. Bis das mit seiner Frau passierte, und dann das mit der Arbeit. Jetzt macht nichts mehr wirklich Sinn. Noch einmal richtig aufräumen, dann ist Ove bereit, für immer zu gehen. Wie ärgerlich, dass genau im falschen Moment im Haus nebenan eine junge Familie einzieht - und mit ihr unglaubliches Chaos. Definitiv ein Fall für Ove, denn das kann so nicht bleiben ...

The million-copy bestselling phenomenon: a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step. Now a major film starring Tom Hanks

"You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll feel new sympathy for the curmudgeons in your life." --People The #1 New York Times bestseller about the grumpy old man next door that's an uplifting exploration of the unreliability of first impressions and a reminder that life is sweeter when it is shared with other people. Also a major film called A Man Called Otto starring Tom Hanks. Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon--the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell." But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations. Fredrik Backman's beloved first novel about the angry old man next door is a thoughtful exploration of the profound impact one life has on countless others. "If there was an award for 'Most Charming Book of the Year, ' this first novel by a Swedish blogger-turned-overnight-sensation would win hands down" (Booklist, starred review).

Now a major motion picture A Man Called Otto starring Tom Hanks #1 New York Times bestseller--more than 3 million copies sold Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon--the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell." But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations. Fredrik Backman's beloved first novel about the angry old man next door is a thoughtful exploration of the profound impact one life has on countless others. "If there was an award for 'Most Charming Book of the Year, ' this first novel by a Swedish blogger-turned-overnight-sensation would win hands down" (Booklist, starred review).

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Most Anticipated Book of 2025: Goodreads - USA TODAY - Marie Claire - BookPage - Literary Lifestyle - Book Riot - Sunset Magazine - Totally Booked with Zibby Owens #1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger's life twenty-five years later. Most people don't even notice them--three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it's just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures. Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love. Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into eighteen-year-old Louisa's care. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it. The closer she gets to the painting's birthplace, the more nervous she becomes about what she'll find. Louisa is proof that happy endings don't always take the form we expect in this stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art.

Fredrick Backman, el Dickens de nuestro tiempo seg n el Green Valley News, regresa al pueblo de Beartown en esta emocionante, divertida y, a ratos, dram tica novela sobre la lealtad y la amistad. Perdido en lo m s profundo del bosque, Beartown es un peque o pueblo de gente que trabaja duro sin esperar que la vida sea f cil ni justa. Su nico anhelo es mantener la reputaci n de su club de hockey sobre hielo. Por eso, cuando un evento inesperado sit a el club al borde de la desaparici n, todos quedan devastados. Y, por si fuera poco, la mitad de los jugadores de Beartown se une al equipo de Hed, el pueblo vecino, y la animosidad entre los dos eternos rivales se intensifica.En-tonces, alguien llega a Beartown para salvar el equipo. Pronto, el equipo empieza a tomar forma alrededor de Amat, el jugador m s r pido que se haya visto; Benji, el intenso lobo solitario; el sol cito y complaciente Bobo; y Vidar, el problem tico nacido para ser un mal muchacho.Sin embargo, poco antes del partido decisivo, una terrible tragedia conmocionar a ambos pueblos y obligar a sus habitantes a preguntarse si, despu s de todo, el deporte que tanto aman volver alg n d a a ser sencillo e inocente como antes: una simple pista de hielo, dos porter as y dos equipos.-----Fredrick Backman, "the Dickens of our time" according to the Green Valley News, returns to the town of Beartown in this exciting, funny and, at times, dramatic story about loyalty and friendship. Lost deep in the woods, Beartown is a small town of hard-working people who don't expect life to be easy or fair. Their only desire is to maintain the reputation of their ice hockey club. So when an unexpected event brings the club to the brink of demise, everyone is devastated. And if that weren't enough, half the players from Beartown join the team from Hed, the neighboring town, and the animosity between the two long-time rivals intensifies.Then someone arrives in Beartown to save the team. Soon, the team begins to take shape around Amat, the fastest player ever seen; Benji, the intense lone wolf; always dutiful and eager-to-please Bobo; and Vidar, a born-to-be-bad troublemaker.However, shortly before the decisive match, a terrible tragedy will shock both towns and force their inhabitants to wonder if, after all, the sport they love so much will ever be as simple and innocent as it used to be--a simple ice rink, two goals and two teams.

The breath-taking new novel from the multi-million copy bestselling author of A Man Called Ove beautifully captures all the complexities of daily life and explores questions of friendship, loyalty, loss, and identity, and asks us to reconsider what it means to win, what it means to lose, and what it means to forgive.

Ove er 59 år og kjører Saab. Han er sur og tverr og alle naboers skrekk. Hver morgen går han på en inspeksjonsrunde i borettslaget for å se at alt er på stell. Det til tross for at han for lengst er avsatt som styreleder - en hendelse han selv omtaler som statskuppet. Ove sparer på strømmen og pruter i butikken, og har alltid et uvennelig ord til de fleste. Til å begynne med tenker du kanskje på Narvestad fra Borettslaget eller Jack Nicholsons fantastiske tolkning av Melvin i Livets lyse side. En gammel grinebiter blottet for sosiale antenner. En funksjonell og praktisk anlagt mann som vil at rett skal være rett, og at folk skal følge de reglene som gjelder i borettslaget. Kort og godt en mann av Prinsipper. Han bryter dem aldri, og slikt blir det selvsagt trøbbel av. Hvordan er det mulig å heie på en slik mann? For det er akkurat det du gjør etter hvert som ærekjære Ove kryper inn under huden din. Kanskje fordi romanen forteller noe viktig om oss selv og vår tid?"Vi blir glade i Ove. Han blir vår mann. Det er en forfatterprestasjon i seg selv. (...) Se opp for en av sommerens sjarmbomber!" Vidar Kvalshaug, AftenpostenLes mer om boken her.

Ove är 59. Han kör Saab. Folk kallar honom ”bitter” och ”grannarnas skräck”. Men Ove är fan inte bitter, grymtar han. Han går väl bara inte runt och flinar jämt!Varje morgon tar Ove sin inspektionsrunda i kvarteret. Flyttar cyklar och kontrollerar källsorteringstunnorna. Trots att det är flera år sedan han avsattes som ordförande på bostadsrättsföreningens årsstämma. Eller ”den där statskuppen”, som Ove själv bara minns den.Men bortom den vresige ordningsmannen finns en historia och en sorg. Så när de nyinflyttade grannarna i radhuset mittemot en novemberdag råkar förstöra Oves brevlåda blir det upptakten på en komisk och hjärtevärmande berättelse om tilltufsade katter, oväntad vänskap och den uråldriga konsten att backa med släp. Som kommer förändra en man och en bostadsrättsförening i grunden.Fredrik Backmans debutroman om den arga äldre mannen i grannhuset präglas av pricksäker humor och hög igenkänningsfaktor. En underhållningsroman som både lyckas skapa sitt eget humoristiska universum och berätta något viktigt om oss själva och vår tid. Det är en underhållande feel good-berättelse i samma anda som Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann och filmen Livet från den ljusa sidan.

The million-copy bestselling phenomenon: a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step. Now a major film starring Tom Hanks

Britt-Mari ne vynosit besporjadka. Ona vsegda uzhinaet v shest vechera, poskolku imenno v shest uzhinajut prilichnye ljudi, i vstaet v shest utra, potomu chto tolko sumasshedshie vstajut pozzhe. I vovse ona ne passivno-agressivnaja, net-net, ni v malejshej stepeni. Prosto ljudi inogda vosprinimajut ee blagozhelatelnye zamechanija kak kritiku, no ona nichego takogo ne imeet v vidu. No odnazhdy privychnyj mir Britt-Mari daet treschinu, i ona reshaet vse izmenit. Ostaviv muzha posle soroka let braka, Britt-Mari perebiraetsja v Borg, krokhotnyj pridorozhnyj poselok, medlenno umirajuschij pod gnetom finansovogo krizisa, chtoby rabotat v mestnom molodezhnom tsentre. Neozhidanno dlja sebja Britt-Mari, pobornitsa idealnoj chistoty, zavodit druzhbu s krysoj - i stanovitsja trenerom mestnoj futbolnoj komandy (khotja futbol ona ne vynosit edva li ne silnee, chem besporjadok). Vzjav na sebja zabotu o malchikakh i devochkakh Borga, Britt-Mari nevolno vnikaet vo vse tonkosti poselkovoj zhizni. Neuzheli v mire vybroshennykh na obochinu chudakov ona nakonets najdet svoe mesto?.. Rodilsja avtor v 1981 godu v gorode Khelsingborg na juge Shvetsii, izuchal v universitete istoriju religii, no brosil, stav vmesto religioveda voditelem-dalnobojschikom. Odnovremenno nachal pisat dlja mestnykh gazet i vesti blogi na ikh sajtakh. Personazh po imeni Uve rodilsja i nekotoroe vremja "prozhival" v bloge Bakmana - poka bolee tysjachi chitatelej ne progolosovali za to, chtoby on stal geroem knigi. V 2012 godu Bakman vypustil roman "Vtoraja zhizn Uve" i prosnulsja znamenitym. Vtoraja kniga "Babushka velela klanjatsja i peredat. chto prosit proschenija" stala bestsellerom v SSHA, Germanii, Norvegii, Islandii, Juzhnoj Korei i Japonii. Vsego v mire prodano uzhe okolo dvukh millionov ekzempljarov etogo romana. Stavshij mezhdunarodnym bestsellerom tretij roman Fredrika Bakmana - trogatelnaja i dukhopodemnaja istorija o ljubvi i vtorykh shansakh, a takzhe o neozhidannoj druzhbe, kotoraja pomogaet nam uvidet sebja so storony - i osoznat, na chto my sposobny na samom dele.Perevodchik: Tepljashina Elena

Now a major motion picture A Man Called Otto starring Tom Hanks #1 New York Times bestseller--more than 3 million copies sold Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon--the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell." But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations. Fredrik Backman's beloved first novel about the angry old man next door is a thoughtful exploration of the profound impact one life has on countless others. "If there was an award for 'Most Charming Book of the Year, ' this first novel by a Swedish blogger-turned-overnight-sensation would win hands down" (Booklist, starred review).

The tender and moving novella from the author of A Man Called Ove and Anxious People'I read this beautifully imagined and moving novella in one sitting, utterly wowed, wanting to share it with everyone I know' Lisa Genova, New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice_________Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller every day.As they wait together on the bench, they tell jokes and discuss their shared love of mathematics. Grandpa recalls what it was like to fall in love with his wife, what it was like to lose her. She's as real to him now as the first day he met her, but he dreads the day when he won't remember her.Sometimes Grandpa sits on the bench next to Ted, Noah's father - Ted who never liked maths, prefers writing and playing guitar, and has waited his entire life for his father to have time for him, to accept him. But in their love of Noah, they have found a common bond.Grandpa, Ted and Noah all meet here, in this peculiar space that is growing dimmer and more confusing all the time.And here is where they will learn to say goodbye, the scent of hyacinths in the air, nothing to fear._________ 'Winsome, bittersweet . . . Wise and heartbreaking, Backman's slim novella celebrates the joy of connecting even in the midst of letting go' People Magazine

The stunning new novel from multi-million copy bestselling author Fredrik Backman.