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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
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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 principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from he 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 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. ...more
Published May 5th 2015 by Washington Square Press (first published August 27th 2012)
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Angie the audiobook pronounces it OOVA
This question contains spoilers… (view spoiler)[Was Ove's death a suicide or not? (hide spoiler)]
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This answer contains spoilers… (view spoiler)[ I chose to think it wasn't. I base that on the line about 4 years..... the doctor gave him related to his heart condition. I know that with the items…more I chose to think it wasn't. I base that on the line about 4 years..... the doctor gave him related to his heart condition. I know that with the items related to his after death desires sitting on the nightstand, it would make a reader think he planned his death. But, he had learned to love and live again.... so, it was just his time. I chose to believe he had those items on his bed stand every night because he knew he was on borrowed time.
His heart was too big.... this also related to the level of caring he had for Sonja, rules, and the neighbor's kids.... It was a heart condition on several levels... (less) (hide spoiler)]
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Apr 21, 2019 Amanda rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Ek lees baie boeke, uitstekende boeke, gemiddelde boeke, ongelukkig soms boeke wat my nie regtig aanstaan nie of doodgewoon nie werklik goed is nie. Maar van tyd tot tyd is daar ’n boek wat my vir ’n volle dag gevange hou, wat my binne sekondes kan laat huil en laat lag. Ek het op ’n Vrydagaand vlugtig vir Ove ontmoet, die ganse Saterdag sy pad met hom gestap, en die aand met opset die laaste paar hoofstukke gebêre omdat ek nog nie gereed was om hom te groet nie.
Ove het in my hart ge Ek lees baie boeke, uitstekende boeke, gemiddelde boeke, ongelukkig soms boeke wat my nie regtig aanstaan nie of doodgewoon nie werklik goed is nie. Maar van tyd tot tyd is daar ’n boek wat my vir ’n volle dag gevange hou, wat my binne sekondes kan laat huil en laat lag. Ek het op ’n Vrydagaand vlugtig vir Ove ontmoet, die ganse Saterdag sy pad met hom gestap, en die aand met opset die laaste paar hoofstukke gebêre omdat ek nog nie gereed was om hom te groet nie.
Ove het in my hart gekruip, nie omdat hy vriendelik of van nature behulpsaam is nie, inteendeel! Eerder omdat hy absoluut konsekwent is in sy optrede. Wat reg is, is reg en behoede diegene wat dan verkeerd is. Die skrywer het daarin geslaag om soveel lewenswaarhede en aktuele sake deur die oë en belewenisse van Ove, aan die leser oor te dra, dat ek aan die einde voel dat ek ryker is na die lees daarvan. Ek het nie noodwendig saamgestem met al sy oortuigings nie. Ove was kwaad vir die Here en het nie die deursneë Christen se weerstand teen die gebruik van die Here se Naam gehad nie, ook nie die berusting dat die Here ’n hoër goed bewerk met alles wat Hy toelaat nie. Nogtans was daar ’n lojaliteit en diepe aan hom wat my as leser verstom het.
Die verhaal van Ove kan heelwat verskillende boksies tiek op die twee leesuitdagings waarmee ek besig is, maar ek gaan, vir die Lekkerleesboek se uitdaging, volstaan met 'n boek uit 'n ander taal as Afrikaans of Engels vertaal (uit Sweeds), en vir die Popsugar uitdaging gaan ek item 46 afmerk: 'n boek met buitengewone hoofstukopskrifte. Die opskrifte, sou jy dit in isolasie lees, som die verhaal in kort op en is meesterlik gekies.
Dankie vir die leesvriende wat die boek aanbeveel het, en my aangemoedig het om dit te lees. Dit was elke minuut werd wat ek daaraan spandeer het. ...more
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Fredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove (soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks), My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, Beartown, Us Against You, as well as two novellas, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer and The Deal of a Lifetime. Things My Son Needs to Know About the World, his first work Fredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove (soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks), My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, Beartown, Us Against You, as well as two novellas, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer and The Deal of a Lifetime. Things My Son Needs to Know About the World, his first work of non-fiction, will be released in the US in May 2019. His books are published in more than forty countries. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children. Connect with him on Twitter @BackmanLand or on Instagram @backmansk. ...more
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“People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.” — 896 likes
“To love someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love in everything new, you wonder every morning that this is one's own, as if they are afraid that someone will suddenly come tumbling through the door and say that there has been a serious mistake and that it simply was not meant to would live so fine. But as the years go by, the facade worn, the wood cracks here and there, and you start to love this house not so much for all the ways it is perfect in that for all the ways it is not. You become familiar with all its nooks and crannies. How to avoid that the key gets stuck in the lock if it is cold outside. Which floorboards have some give when you step on them, and exactly how to open the doors for them not to creak. That's it, all the little secrets that make it your home.” — 825 likes
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