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The Fredrik Backman Box Set: A Man Called Ove / My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry / Britt-Marie Was Here
The Fredrik Backman Box Set A Man Called Ove / My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry / BrittMarie Was Here Author:Fredrik Backman, Henning Koch (Translator) A Man Called Ove: — A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door... 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 princ... more »iples, 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.
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry:
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy: as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother’s stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal.
When Elsa’s grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa’s greatest adventure begins.
Her grandmother’s instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones... but also to the truth about fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.
Britt-Marie Was Here:
Britt-Marie can’t stand mess. A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable sins. She is not one to judge others, no matter how ill-mannered, unkempt, or morally suspect they might be. It’s just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention.
But hidden inside the socially awkward, fussy busybody is a woman who has more imagination, bigger dreams, and a warmer heart that anyone around her realizes.
When Britt-Marie walks out on her cheating husband and has to fend for herself in the miserable backwater town of Borg, of which the kindest thing one can say is that it has a road going through it, she finds work as the caretaker of a soon-to-be demolished recreation center.
The fastidious Britt-Marie soon finds herself being drawn into the daily doings of her fellow citizens, an odd assortment of miscreants, drunkards, and layabouts.
Most alarming of all, she’s given the impossible task of leading the supremely untalented children’s soccer team to victory.
In this small town of misfits, can Britt-Marie find a place where she truly belongs?« less