A Man Called Ove Goodreads Choice Award for Favorite Book and Young Adult Series (2009) and Nominee for Best of the Best (2018) Duckworth shows how many people

Duckworth shows how many people achieve remarkable things not just by relying on innate natural talent

From acclaimed author Anthony Doerr

Elegantly structured and written

Brookner once again “works a spell on the reader” ( The Washington Post Book World )

not least the music

A Man Called Ove Goodreads Choice Award for Favorite Book and Young Adult Series (2009) and Nominee for Best of the Best (2018) Duckworth shows how many peopleAt first sight, Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiotsneighbours 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