"First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Hodder & Stoughton"--Title page verso.
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Published29 novembre 2022
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About the author
Fredrik Backman
Author
Fredrik Backman is a Swedish author, blogger, and columnist. He wrote A Man Called Ove (2012), Things My Son Needs to Know about the World (2012), My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (2013), Britt-Marie Was Here (2014), Beartown (2017), Us Against You (2018), Anxious People (2020), The Winners (2022), and My Friends (2025). The books were number one bestsellers in his home country of Sweden. Backman's books have been published in more than twenty-five languages
A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman
Fiction
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