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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).

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“A charming debut…You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll feel new sympathy for the curmudgeons in your life. You’ll also want to move to Scandinavia, where everything’s cuter.” ― People

"In turns moving and funny. . . I wager that you’ll soon fall in love with Ove and be deeply moved by his situation, and after spending time with him, may perhaps gaze at the world around you with a little more empathy than when you turned the first page." -- Eric Larson

“Even the most serious reader of fiction needs light relief, and for that afternoon when all you want is charm, this is the perfect book." ― San Francisco Chronicle

"A magnificent homage to humanity and to the possibility of friendship and faith in long-lost love. It covers a lot of ground: marriage, love, race, class, division, gentrification. It's one of those good stories that connects." -- James McBride

“You will laugh, you will cry, as his heartbreaking story unfolds through the diverse cast of characters that enter his life, all uninvited. You will never look at the grumpy people who come into your life in quite the same way. A very memorable read."
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"An inspiring affirmation of love for life and acceptance of people for their essence and individual quirks...a perfect selection for book clubs...bittersweet, tender, often wickedly humorous and almost certain to elicit tears.” ― BookBrowse.com

"A light hearted, deeply moving novel about a grumpy but loveable curmudgeon who finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door. This quirky debut is a thoughtful and charming exploration of the impact one life has on countless others—and an absolute delight." ― CBS Local

"Readers seeking feel-good tales with a message will rave about the rantings of this solitary old man with a singular outlook. 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

“A funny crowd-pleaser that serves up laughs to accompany a thoughtful reflection on loss and love… The author writes with winning charm.” ― Publishers Weekly, starred review

“This charming debut novel by Backman should find a ready audience with English-language readers… hysterically funny… wry descriptions, excellent pacing… In the contest of Most Winning Combination, it would be hard to beat grumpy Ove and his hidden,generous heart.” ― Kirkus Reviews

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Fredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, Beartown, Us Against You, and Anxious People, as well as two novellas and one work of nonfiction. His books are published in more than forty countries. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children. Connect with him on Facebook and Twitter @BackmanLand and on Instagram @Backmansk.

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Chapter 1: A Man Called Ove Buys a Computer That Is Not a Computer 1 A MAN CALLED OVE BUYS A COMPUTER THAT IS NOT A COMPUTER
Ove is fifty-nine.

He drives a Saab. He’s the kind of man who points at people he doesn’t like the look of, as if they were burglars and his forefinger a policeman’s flashlight. He stands at the counter of a shop where owners of Japanese cars come to purchase white cables. Ove eyes the sales assistant for a long time before shaking a medium-sized white box at him.

“So this is one of those O-Pads, is it?” he demands.

The assistant, a young man with a single-digit body mass index, looks ill at ease. He visibly struggles to control his urge to snatch the box out of Ove’s hands.

“Yes, exactly. An iPad. Do you think you could stop shaking it like that…?”

Ove gives the box a skeptical glance, as if it’s a highly dubious sort of box, a box that rides a scooter and wears tracksuit pants and just called Ove “my friend” before offering to sell him a watch.

“I see. So it’s a computer, yes?”

The sales assistant nods. Then hesitates and quickly shakes his head.

“Yes… or, what I mean is, it’s an iPad. Some people call it a ‘tablet’ and others call it a ‘surfing device.’ There are different ways of looking at it.…”

Ove looks at the sales assistant as if he has just spoken backwards, before shaking the box again.

“But is it good, this thing?”

The assistant nods confusedly. “Yes. Or… How do you mean?”

Ove sighs and starts talking slowly, articulating his words as if the only problem here is his adversary’s impaired hearing.

“Is. It. Goooood? Is it a good computer?”

The assistant scratches his chin.

“I mean… yeah… it’s really good… but it depends what sort of computer you want.”

Ove glares at him.

“I want a computer! A normal bloody computer!”

Silence descends over the two men for a short while. The assistant clears his throat.

“Well… it isn’t really a normal computer. Maybe you’d rather have a…”

The assistant stops and seems to be looking for a word that falls within the bounds of comprehension of the man facing him. Then he clears his throat again and says:

“… a laptop?”

Ove shakes his head wildly and leans menacingly over the counter.

“No, I don’t want a ‘laptop.’ I want a computer.”

The assistant nods pedagogically.

“A laptop is a computer.”

Ove, insulted, glares at him and stabs his forefinger at the counter.

“You think I don’t know that!”

Another silence, as if two gunmen have suddenly realized they have forgotten to bring their pistols. Ove looks at the box for a long time, as though he’s waiting for it to make a confession.

“Where does the keyboard pull out?” he mutters eventually.

The sales assistant rubs his palms against the edge of the counter and shifts his weight nervously from foot to foot, as young men employed in retail outlets often do when they begin to understand that something is going to take considerably more time than they had initially hoped.

“Well, this one doesn’t actually have a keyboard.”

Ove does something with his eyebrows. “Ah, of course,” he splutters. “Because you have to buy it as an ‘extra,’ don’t you?”

“No, what I mean is that the computer doesn’t have a separate keyboard. You control everything from the screen.”

Ove shakes his head in disbelief, as if he’s just witnessed the sales assistant walking around the counter and licking the glass-fronted display cabinet.

“But I have to have a keyboard. You do understand that?”

The young man sighs deeply, as if patiently counting to ten.

“Okay. I understand. In that case I don’t think you should go for this computer. I think you should buy something like a MacBook instead.”

“A McBook?” Ove says, far from convinced. “Is that one of those blessed ‘eReaders’ everyone’s talking about?”

“No. A MacBook is a… it’s a… laptop, with a keyboard.”

“Okay!” Ove hisses. He looks around the shop for a moment. “So are they any good, then?”

The sales assistant looks down at the counter in a way that seems to reveal a fiercely yet barely controlled desire to begin clawing his own face. Then he suddenly brightens, flashing an energetic smile.

“You know what? Let me see if my colleague has finished with his customer, so he can come and give you a demonstration.”

Ove checks his watch and grudgingly agrees, reminding the assistant that some people have better things to do than stand around all day waiting. The assistant gives him a quick nod, then disappears and comes back after a few moments with a colleague. The colleague looks very happy, as people do when they have not been working for a sufficient stretch of time as sales assistants.

“Hi, how can I help you?”

Ove drills his police-flashlight finger into the counter.

“I want a computer!”

The colleague no longer looks quite as happy. He gives the first sales assistant an insinuating glance as if to say he’ll pay him back for this.

In the meantime the first sales assistant mutters, “I can’t take anymore, I’m going for lunch.”

“Lunch,” snorts Ove. “That’s the only thing people care about nowadays.”

“I’m sorry?” says the colleague and turns around.

“Lunch!” He sneers, then tosses the box onto the counter and swiftly walks out.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1476738025
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Washington Square Press; Reprint edition (May 5, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 337 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781476738024
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1476738024
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 870L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.92 x 8.25 inches

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Henning Koch (b. 1962) was born in Uppsala, Sweden but at an early age moved to England, where he was brought up in London and Hampshire. After completing his degree studies in English Literature at Bedford College, London, in 1984, he spent a decade traveling and working in Asia, the United States, Spain and South America. His interest in Mediterranean and Hispanic cultures has been a strong influence in his writing, and continues to be a driving factor. His debut "Love Doesn't Work" (Dzanc, 2011) is a mixed-genre short story collection set in London, Sardinia and Stockholm. His first novel, "The Maggot People" (Dzanc, 2014), takes an irreverent look at religion and the underlying assumptions of immortality.
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Such a good book!

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Ove is the grumpy old neighbor you don't want in your neighborhood. He complains about everything, insists on people following strict rules, and has no interest in befriending others. When a new family moves in next door, Ove makes it known that he is annoyed by their presence. Little by little, the family and other neighbors worm their way into his life.

When I first read this book, I didn't think I would like it. It was a book club pick and I went into it thinking I was going to be bored. I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly the story moved and by how charming the book was. This was the Fredrik Backman book that I read and I was impressed by his character development. He blew life into each character in the neighborhood and their interactions were amusing and heartwarming. As I re-read this book via audiobook, I was reminded by how special this story was.

My favorite parts of the book was when it went back in time to scenes with Ove and his wife. His love for her was tremendous and I thought it was sweet that such a cranky man could have such a big love in his life. Ove had some personal challenges early in his life and it seemed with he met his wife, it was his chance to find happiness. Their life together wasn't a happily ever after in a traditional sense, but their love transcended the struggles that life put them through.

This is a book about finding love and friendships despite the curveballs that life throws your way. Although there are tragic elements to it, it will warm your heart.

⚠️: death of a loved one, grief, suicidal thoughts & attempts, paralyzing accident, miscarriage, cancer, homophobia

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Good book, very unbelievable

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I liked this book, but about 2/3rds in my eyes were rolling frequently and I had to force myself not to skip ahead. It felt like the author was constantly trying to get the readers to believe Ove had a good heart. I come from a family where most of the men are grumpy like this by their early 30s! Yes they have big hearts “hidden” inside, but society doesn’t care. They avoid or bully people like this. One or two every decade or so, try to get their wives and children away from the abuse they assume they endure, but this is rare. Also, Ove is constantly worried about being scammed out of money (like he was as a teen by a fake insurance salesman) yet lets a stranger live in his house. Very unrealistic but since he’s a homosexual who has just come out and consequently thrown out my his father, we are all supposed to fall in love more with Ove, I hate to sound like Ove, but Pfff. So unrealistic. He openly calls him a bender to his face, even after his neighbor corrects him, yet noone gets angry or violent towards Ove, he’s also a superhero too by the way. He fixes things others can’t fix within minutes.
After this book I read reviews of some of the author’s other books and he’s described of having an uncanny ability to understand the human condition. Pff. If this were so, Ove’s pregnant neighbor would have found out his wealth and then became friends with him. Or the author would describe the other neighbors fear of him, but no they all accepted him and were friendly towards him. They all just ignored his comments about their weight, spouse’s stupidity and even let the comments of having unruly children slide. They don’t even question why Ove makes them sit on newspapers in his Saab. Strangely this superhero with personality problems lives among a group of saints who are seldom irritated by his irritating ways. We never know why, the author just seems like we need to believe this is acceptable. This utopia life is in Sweden, yet even with their low homicide rates, free education and free healthcare this neighborhood is void of real human conditions, no wonder new houses are popping up around there everyday! This book is still a good way to unwind at the end of the day, its funny and touching. I look forward to reading more of this authors very fictional work.

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O... M... G... WHAT A GREAT STORY!

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When I first began this story, I wasn't so sure I'd like it. Ove is one grumpy fellow!
But then we're shown his life and all the disappointments he's endured. The one guiding light he had was his very overworked father who made it clear to Ove, even while encouraging him to make his own decisions, that honesty and truth made the worth of a man.
He grew older and met a woman who '...was all the color in his life'.
Although he'd never learned to relax and smell the roses, his wife (who WAS the one light in his life) helped him cope with the things he had a hard time understanding.
This book made me laugh and made me cry, and took me through every emotion in the rainbow.
I was shocked at his behavior at times (both good and bad, lol) and reminded how we don't always understand the motivations of the way people sometimes behave poorly.
Over all, we discover that Ove really does have a good heart, even though he'd never admit it. At times, it's because he sees a wrong and he just has to right it, and other times, he thinks it's what his wife, his light and color, would want him to do.
If you begin to read this book and think you won't like it, read a little more before giving up. It's well worth the read.

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A bittersweet, compelling, moving to tears story with great character development.

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A Man Called Ove, takes you to the Swedish town and makes you laugh and cry and sometimes both. The book is about an old man and his journey from his simple childhood to a struggling life. The man who lost his wife, Sonja to cancer, and wants nothing more than to kill himself in peace. First, he keeps getting interrupted by his neighbors and later, he fixes everything right. The trouble is all these people need his help. Ove can’t turn his back and annoy his wife. As he helps the neighbors, he reflects his memories of his time living with Sonja.

In the opening scenes, he is yelling at an iPad sales clerk, like an irate elder man who can’t get with times. But when you learn everything that led to it, you’ll find so many connections. Ove has so many levels to him you will lose count trying to guess what he might do in any given situation. His reactions will annoy you, irritate you beyond belief. But gradually you’ll see the stones turning. OVE is a man of order of life. A man of very few relationships, but the very few he loved, he can build an empire for them. He liked to understand, learn and create things by himself. Like what he thought, he could do. The anecdotes and flashbacks spread throughout the story tell us how he came to be the man he is; wonderful yet complex.

It’s not what the story is about, but what it leaves with you that makes you love the book.

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S. Evans

Oh dearie me!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 19, 2018

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Uneasy as I am about giving a one star review to a book abandoned after only 40 pages, I do so anyway to alert readers like myself who will be bitterly disappointed by this book. I bought it on bad advice from several friends who knew how much I had enjoyed both episodes of "The hundred years old man who climbed ……" also from Sweden. Talk of chalk and cheese! So far as I got before sheer boredom said "Enough!", this book appears to be the about the shambolic activities and state of mind of a man whose wife has just died and who is (presumably, because he wants to fit a hook to a ceiling) contemplating joining her. We have heard a lot about misunderstandings because of his racial bigotry (he hates anybody not Swedish, especially his nice new Indian neighbours), and have read much of his fastidious and repetitive habits, his ability to reverse a trailer and to indulge in some convoluted parking activities in his Saab to upset a Mercedes driver. Takes one to know one. Sorry guys. I am sure some great epiphany is on the way in which Ove will redeem himself, but I will not be accompanying him on this odyssey. Mainly because if he turns out to be the slightest bit interesting, this will directly contradict what I have endured of him so far. I cannot be bothered to read on, and A Man Called Ove is already in the bin. As readers of my reviews know, I a generous critic, but this one is, for me anyway, a turkey. (PS - I will be 79 next month, and look forward to birthday greetings on FB. Last year I got 75!)

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Laugh, cry, love this book!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 2, 2017

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This book is just so lovely, so sad, so touching and so funny that I can't believe it took me so long to get round to reading it. I have never cried so much at a book - nor laughed so much. It's the touching tale of a grumpy miserable man who can't understand modern technology and doesn't want to. He's rude to everyone, intolerant and awful but the book takes the reader along on a journey with Ove that little by little shows us who he is, why he is the way he is and what he becomes.

No spoilers but this is the most touching and lovely heart warming book I have ever read - I loved it!!

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lorry

Everyone knows an Ove.

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After ignoring the hype around this book, as well as some seriously dubious reviews regarding the character being a bigot/racist, which i did NOT find to be the case, i bought it for a quid in kindle deals in July and forgot all about it. Five months later, i gave it a go and read it in one day. It was as compulsive reading as a really compulsive, compulsive thing, on national be more compulsive than usual day.
So without spoilers, Ove is a grumpy old rhymes with odd, and with good reason.
From an era when pride in a job well done and not blowing your own trumpet, Ove was raised in a house of few words, without much in life, but what he had always seemed to be taken from him.
Long story short, he moans, but is a good guy, trying to get by in a worldgonemad. Misunderstood by most, but neverone to not help, as long as he can moan about it.
This is my first book from the author, but certainly won't be the last.
One of those rare books you mourn it ending, but will read again and again over the years.
What you waiting for? Buy it now!

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Rollercoaster of sadness and humour

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 31, 2017

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Mix grumpy old man, OCD, and a desire to join his dead wife in the afterlife – what you get is “a man called Ove”. Ove has a plan to commit suicide and with such clarity of thought and reasoning he has it planned to a tee. Unfortunately for his plans, he is joined by a new family next door and a stray cat, and belligerently finds himself periodically postponing his suicide as he does just one more favour for them.

There are many times throughout the book I laughed out loud, especially at Ove’s conviction of how things should be and his tetchiness with those who don’t see things his way. It is also a very sad and heart-warming story as Ove deals with the loss of his wife, loneliness and just how communities can be socially uplifting and rewarding.

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