He is a man of few words, but he does not shy away from speaking his mind. When an outgoing young family moves in across the way, nearly all of Ove’s firmly held beliefs are put to the test. He is neither happy nor unhappy he simply is. He has come to see himself as the last guardian of honor and reliability in a world increasingly focused on personal pursuits. Over the course of their life together, Sonja and Ove have developed a very close, yet comfortable, relationship, and Ove now focuses on his daily routine: neighborhood inspections, monitoring power consumption, looking out for parking violations, and similar efforts. The only stable neighbors have been Rune and Anita, with whom they have shared many experiences and occasional disagreements. They have watched the surrounding forest slowly be sacrificed to provide space for more homes, and have seen numerous families come and go over the years. The word-of-mouth bestseller causing a sensation across Europe, 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 - and less ready to judge on first impressions a man you might one day wish to have as your dearest friend.Ove has lived in the same tract house for over four decades with his wife, Sonja.
In the end, you will see, there is something about Ove that is quite irresistible. He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets.īut 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? 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 coup d'etat that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents' Association. 'Rescued all those men who constantly mean to read novels but never get round to it' Spectator Books of the YearĪt first sight, Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet.
Warm, funny, and almost unbearably moving' Daily Mail
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