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A mancalled ove6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() I was surprised to discover Backman is only 33. The author has created a plausible “voice” for his curmudgeonly main character and the lens through which such a man might evaluate the world. Ove sees the world in black or white while his wife was “colour.” Ove has very definite, perhaps rigid beliefs about right and wrong too whether it’s the proper way to make coffee or the brand of car to own (only a Saab). ![]() It’s been his wife Sonja, who’s always been the buffer between himself and the world.īut can you blame him? Instead of the order and predictability he craves, what Ove is witnessing around him is: “A shed-load of men with elaborate beards, changing jobs and changing wives and changing their car makes. “What did they know about waking up on a Tuesday and no longer having a purpose?” is a question Ove asks himself, when after 40 years of marriage, he finds himself jobless and alone. After over 1000 of Backman’s readers voted he “write a novel “about him, A Man Called Ove was the result. Fredrik Backman is a Swedish columnist and blogger whose character Ove, first came to life in the author’s blog. ![]()
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