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A review by aadrita
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
5.0
A Man called Ove is fifty nine. A Man called Ove is bitter and grumpy. A man called Ove is alone and ready to leave this world. A man called Ove’s world is shaken to the core when a nosy family with no respect for personal boundary moves in as his neighbors.
This is a simple story about a simple old man. He doesn’t like anything digital or automatic, does not trust the internet, bargains over the price of every single thing, has very strong opinions about the right way of doing things. Ove sounds so uninteresting and unpleasant, right? But by the end of the book everyone is bound to fall in love with this sullen old granddad. Let me tell you the reason why.
Everyone considers Ove to be grumpy but he’s not particularly grumpy. He just doesn’t go on grinning ear to ear all the time. Ove represents every single struggling working self-made man out there. Life had never been kind to him. All his hardships turned him into a bitter man but could never take away the kindness from his heart. He goes around repairing people’s radiators and cars because it’s easier to just do it himself rather than wasting time on educating them. Also because he doesn’t want to see anyone hurting themselves. And he is a romantic at heart, loved his wife with everything he ever had. The absence of her turned him into a bitter man but the presence of newfound love and family turned him into a lovable bitter man again and that’s what this story is about.
You see Ove is not the man he looks from the outside. And when you get to know the man, you can’t not love him.
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This is a simple story about a simple old man. He doesn’t like anything digital or automatic, does not trust the internet, bargains over the price of every single thing, has very strong opinions about the right way of doing things. Ove sounds so uninteresting and unpleasant, right? But by the end of the book everyone is bound to fall in love with this sullen old granddad. Let me tell you the reason why.
Everyone considers Ove to be grumpy but he’s not particularly grumpy. He just doesn’t go on grinning ear to ear all the time. Ove represents every single struggling working self-made man out there. Life had never been kind to him. All his hardships turned him into a bitter man but could never take away the kindness from his heart. He goes around repairing people’s radiators and cars because it’s easier to just do it himself rather than wasting time on educating them. Also because he doesn’t want to see anyone hurting themselves. And he is a romantic at heart, loved his wife with everything he ever had. The absence of her turned him into a bitter man but the presence of newfound love and family turned him into a lovable bitter man again and that’s what this story is about.
You see Ove is not the man he looks from the outside. And when you get to know the man, you can’t not love him.
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