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A review by dohaalsayed
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
5.0
∆ I could have finished this in a day. But I really wanted to take my time with it because it was the treat of my day.
∆ It's beautifully written. I'm not sure if it's Mr. Backman, himself, or the translator. But the novel incorporates so very simple language that is so deep. This simplicity adds a sense of deepness to the novel and the sentences. Everything, language-wise, made the novel seem very realistic, and whimsical at the same time. Backman transfers you into the world he has built and you feel like you're living in it as well, or at least like you're in a 3D movie.
∆ How beautiful! The characters are so vivid and so real that you feel they are all your neighbors, or that you've met them at a certain point in life.
∆ The depiction of Elsa's grief over the loss of Elsa's granny is so so so real that it was actually the same way I felt when my granny died. I was sad, so sad, but angry at her all at the same time. I couldn't believe she left me alone, especially that she practically raised me up. And I lived with my granny much longer than Elsa did with hers. So, I do understand everything Elsa was going through. And it made it so real.
∆ There is no other author who manages to draw a relationship between a kid and his grandparent like Mr. Backman. The relationship is so real that I actually identified with so many parts of it because I, too, had such a relationship with my own granny. No secret languages, of course
∆ It's beautifully written. I'm not sure if it's Mr. Backman, himself, or the translator. But the novel incorporates so very simple language that is so deep. This simplicity adds a sense of deepness to the novel and the sentences. Everything, language-wise, made the novel seem very realistic, and whimsical at the same time. Backman transfers you into the world he has built and you feel like you're living in it as well, or at least like you're in a 3D movie.
∆ How beautiful! The characters are so vivid and so real that you feel they are all your neighbors, or that you've met them at a certain point in life.
∆ The depiction of Elsa's grief over the loss of Elsa's granny is so so so real that it was actually the same way I felt when my granny died. I was sad, so sad, but angry at her all at the same time. I couldn't believe she left me alone, especially that she practically raised me up. And I lived with my granny much longer than Elsa did with hers. So, I do understand everything Elsa was going through. And it made it so real.
∆ There is no other author who manages to draw a relationship between a kid and his grandparent like Mr. Backman. The relationship is so real that I actually identified with so many parts of it because I, too, had such a relationship with my own granny. No secret languages, of course