Fredrik Backman
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon-- the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell." But behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox,...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Swedish
Description
Ove, a grumpy, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, decides to give up on life until an unlikely friendship develops with a boisterous young family that moves in next door.
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Swedish
Description
Britt-Marie's "40-year-old marriage has just broken up because she learned her husband was unfaithful. Now at 63 years old, she is faced with making a new start in life in the small town of Borg. Told she is a nagging passive-aggressive aunt, the only job she can find is quite challenging: to coach the town's youth soccer team. She knows nothing about soccer or coaching, and the team is the team is the town's pride and joy, but she takes the job...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Swedish
Description
Ove is the block's grumpy old man who enforces strict neighborhood rules and whom everybody avoids. One ordinary day a new family is moving in next door to Ove and accidentally backs into his mailbox. Turns out there is an unexpected friendship that blooms out of it.