Fredrik Backman, trans. from the Swedish by Henning Koch. Atria, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4767-3801-7
In this Swedish bestseller, Ove is a lovably miserable neighborhood curmudgeon—think a cross between Up’s Carl Fredricksen and Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson—who spends his days inspecting his community and criticizing others, judging each by...
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Fredrik Backman. Atria, $25 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5011-1506-6
Precocious Elsa, a sharp-witted seven-year-old, has only one friend, her protective, eccentric Granny, who tells her nightly bedtime fairy tales in their small apartment in the Land of Almost-Awake. But when cancer takes Granny away, Elsa is tasked...
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Fredrik Backman, trans. from the Swedish by Henning Koch. Atria, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4253-6
The bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with this heartwarming story about a woman rediscovering herself after a personal crisis. Sixty-three-year-old Britt-Marie is a gentle, extremely straightforward and believably flawed protagonist...
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Fredrik Backman, trans. from the Swedish by Neil Smith, read by Marin Ireland. S&S Audio, , unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-5082-3097-7
Backman’s latest novel requires actor Ireland to portray small-town machismo with sensitivity, eschewing caricature and low-hanging fruit to reveal the vulnerable underside of the teenage players of Beartown’s youth hockey league (and their parents,
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Fredrik Backman, trans. from the Swedish by Neil Smith. Atria, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5011-6076-9
The bestselling author of A Man Called Ove tells a poignant story of a hockey town paralyzed by scandal. Jobs are disappearing and Beartown is slowly dying, so for its citizens, hockey is everything. Backman asks, “Why does everyone care about...
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Fredrik Backman, trans. from the Swedish by Neil Smith. Atria, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5011-6079-0
Backman (A Man Called Ove) returns to the hockey-obsessed village of his previous novel Beartown to chronicle the passion, violence, resilience, and humanity of the people who live there in this engrossing tale of small-town Swedish life. As a new...
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Fredrik Backman. Atria, $24 (208p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9686-7
Swedish novelist Backman (A Man Called Ove; Beartown) addresses his young son in a series of delightful, thoughtful essays on fatherhood. In “What You Need To Know About Motion-Sensitive Bathroom Lights,” Backman explains how his life “revolves...
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Fredrik Backman, trans. from the Swedish by Neil Smith. Atria, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5011-6083-7
A diverse assortment of Swedes gets caught in an unlikely hostage situation in Backman’s witty, lighthearted romp (after Us Against You). On the day before New Year’s Eve, in a “not particularly large or noteworthy town,” a desperate parent attempts
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Fredrik Backman, trans. from the Swedish by Neil Smith. Atria, $28.99 (688p) ISBN 978-1-982112-79-0
Backman (Anxious People) wraps up his Beartown trilogy with the satisfying if overlong tale of two small towns and their inhabitants’ traumas and rivalries. After a storm collapses the roof of the hockey rink in Hed, the town’s club must share the...
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