A man called Ove
Backman, Fredrik, 1981-2015
Book
Now in paperback, this has been a bestseller in Europe, and was a Radio 2 Book Club Choice as well as a Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. The funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community, following a Chairman of a Residents' Association. 'A warm and tender story about love, loss and second chances,' Gavin Extence NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING TOM HANKSThe million-copy bestselling phenomenon: a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step.'Warm, funny, and almost unbearably moving' Daily Mail'Delightful . . . the perfect holiday read' Evening StandardOve 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 quite irresistible . . .'Hilarious and heart-breaking' Stylist'Rescued all those men who constantly mean to read novels but never get round to it' Spectator Books of the Year
Main title:
A man called Ove / Fredrik Backman.
Author:
Backman, Fredrik, 1981-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Sceptre, 2015.
Collation:
1 volume
Notes:
Translated from the Swedish.Formerly CIP. Uk
ISBN:
9781444775815 (pbk)
Dewey class:
839.738GEN
Language:
EnglishSwedish
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BRN:
272917