A man called Ove / Fredrik Backman.

By: Backman, Fredrik, 1981- [author.]Contributor(s): Koch, Henning, 1962- [translator.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Publisher: Frodsham, Cheshire : Large Print Bookshop , 2016Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Large print editionDescription: 367 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781510046696; 9781871510553; 9781871510560Uniform titles: Man som heter Ove. English. Subject(s): Communities -- Fiction | Older men -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books. | Humorous fiction. Summary: There is something about Ove. At first sight, he is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - neighbours who can't reverse a trailer properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the vicious coup d'etat that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents' Association. He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets. But isn't it rare, these days, to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and deed? Such unswerving conviction about what the world should be, and a lifelong dedication to making it just so?
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Standard print edition originally published: London: Sceptre, 2014.

There is something about Ove. At first sight, he is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - neighbours who can't reverse a trailer properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the vicious coup d'etat that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents' Association. He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets. But isn't it rare, these days, to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and deed? Such unswerving conviction about what the world should be, and a lifelong dedication to making it just so?

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