A Man Called Ove
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4.5 • 47 Ratings
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- $27.99
Publisher Description
The international phenomenon: quirky and bittersweet, heartbreaking yet outrageously funny. Perfect for fans of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of a Window and Disappeared.
The million-copy bestselling phenomenon: Soon to be a major film starring Tom Hanks.
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.
'Warm, funny, and almost unbearably moving' Daily Mail
At first sight, Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. 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. He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets.
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...
'Rescued all those men who constantly mean to read novels but never get round to it' Spectator Books of the Year
(P)2014 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Customer Reviews
Beautiful
A very touching, poignant and wonderful movie was made of this book. Great characters and story; I cried.
Narrator sinks the story
The story is fantastic, but the narrator is incredibly important to its telling. I was so disappointed in this narrator - she added “bloody” to the dialogue often (not in the original story) and her voice was so sing-song, it distracted from the story. The audiobook narrated by George Newbern is so far superior that I’m deleting this audiobook - even though it cost me $30. I won’t make the same mistake again. Go listen to George Newbern’s telling.