A Man Called Ove

Name: A Man Called Ove
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: Fredrik Backman
ISBN: 9781476738024

Fredrik Backman • 2012

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying

grief love loss literary fiction

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Our Take

Ove is trying to die and the neighbourhood keeps interrupting him. Backman writes grief disguised as grumpiness with tremendous warmth, and the love story revealed in flashback is quietly devastating. A novel about how much one person can anchor another, and what happens to that anchor when the person is gone.

Appears In

► Grief Books — Novels About Loss and Healing ► Elder Abuse and Neglect — The Violence of Abandonment ► Grief and Time — The Calendar of Loss ► Dementia and Memory Loss — The Self That Goes Before the Body

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