Five Stars
From the first page onward, Fredrik Backman introduces the reader to a grumpy old man. It took me time to warm to this curmudgeon who gets interrupted several times in the first few chapter when he tries to commit suicide.
Ove is a stickler for rules. All rules. In his community he is a self-appointed watchman who patrols the neighborhood for any tiny infraction. A bike not put away, someone driving where no cars are allow, noise, dogs on leashes, children. All he wants, we learn in the first part of the book, is to join his wife. This love of his life, this woman who loved him and saw something in him he didn’t see in himself, has died a few years before. She’s taken the color in the world with her, leaving behind a black-and-white man with few friends and little reason to live.
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