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Also by Fredrik Backman:

My Friends, August 2026
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My Friends, May 2025
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The Winners, September 2023
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A Man Called Ove, December 2022
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Anxious People, July 2021
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Us Against You, March 2019
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Britt-Marie Was Here, May 2016
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A MAN CALLED OVE
By: Fredrik Backman

Washington Square Press
December 2022
On Sale: November 22, 2022
368 pages
ISBN: 166801081X
EAN: 9781668010815
Kindle: B00GEEB730
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Contemporary | Literature and Fiction Literary

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 must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?

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, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents’ association to their very foundations.