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Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. Every morning he makes his inspection rounds of the local streets, even though it''s been years since he was fired as Chairman of the Residents'' Association in a vicious ''coup d''etat''.
But behind the surly pedant there is a story, and a sadness.
And when on a November morning his new (foreign) neighbours accidentally flatten ove''s letterbox, it sets off a comical and heart-warming tale of unexpected friendship.
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Fredrik Backman (1981) es uno de los narradores contemporáneos más queridos del panorama internacional. Antes de convertirse en novelista trabajó como columnista y bloguero, y alcanzó fama mundial con su primera novela, A Man Called Ove. Sus historias han sido traducidas a más de cuarenta idiomas y han vendido 20 millones de ejemplares en todo el mundo. Vive en Estocolmo con su esposa y sus dos hijos.