![]() ![]() ![]() Also, as the story moves forward, we begin to recognize Ove’s disdain towards other beings is just a facade! There’s more to Ove than meets the eye – he is a kind man underneath all that grumbling! □ So this a sweet, moving story with the right balance of sad and funny. But this is when things become tricky for him! No matter how hard Ove tries, Ove’s nosy neighbors and other people somehow manage to butt in and disrupt his life, so Ove has to keep pushing his plans to cater to their needs!Ī Man Called Ove oscillates between past and present, and Ove’s backstory tells us more about what/ who shaped him into the man he is. ![]() So when we meet Ove, he is on a mission to try and kill himself to reunite with his wife. But now that Ove has been forced out of work, he got nothing to look forward. After her death, Ove had kept going because responsibilities and rules matter a lot to him. ![]() Ove’s wife, Sonja who was pretty much the only person Ove cared about in this world, had passed away six months ago. But I never got around reading it, so this worked out perfect for me!Ī Man Called Ove, which is Fredrik Backman’s debut novel, centers around Ove, a grumpy, old Swedish man of fifty-nine. I bought the book when its movie adaptation got nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at Oscars. I joined a new book club recently and A Man Called Ove was the book chosen for our inaugural meeting. ![]()
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