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Fredrik Backman

    2 juin 1981

    Fredrik Backman excelle dans la capture des complexités des relations humaines et de la recherche de sens dans la vie quotidienne. Ses œuvres se caractérisent par un mélange unique d'humour, de mélancolie et une profonde compréhension de la nature humaine. À travers ses personnages, il explore des thèmes tels que la solitude, la communauté et la gentillesse inattendue qui peut connecter même les âmes les plus étrangères. Son style est accessible mais profond, offrant aux lecteurs une expérience captivante et émouvante.

    Fredrik Backman
    Anxious People
    And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
    The Winners
    My Friends
    Us Against You
    Vieux, râleur et suicidaire - La vie selon Ove
    • My Friends

      • 448pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      My Friends, the brilliant new novel from Fredrik Backman, New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Anxious People, is coming in June 2025!

      My Friends2025
      4,4
    • This is a small story about big questions. It's a story about family, community, life. It starts with a storm - and a death. But how does it end? Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there’s something about this place that prevents it. The residents continue to grapple with life’s big questions: What is a family? What is a community? And what, if anything, are we willing to sacrifice in order to protect them? As the locals of Beartown struggle to overcome the past, great change is on the horizon. Someone is coming home after a long time away. Someone will be laid to rest. Someone will fall in love, someone will try to fix their marriage, and someone will do anything to save their children. Someone will submit to hate, someone will fight, and someone will grab a gun and walk towards the ice rink. So what are the residents of Beartown willing to sacrifice for their home? Everything.

      The Winners2022
      4,4
    • The Deal Of A Lifetime

      • 80pages
      • 3 heures de lecture

      The Deal of a Lifetime strikes straight at the heart and hits you Deccan Chronicle India

      The Deal Of A Lifetime2017
      3,8
    • Us Against You

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Us Against Youtells the story of the months after the terrible events that shook Beartown last spring. Best friends Maya and Ana spend the summer on a hidden island, trying to leave the world behind, but nothing goes as they hope. Beartown and neighbouring Hed's rivalry grows into a furious struggle for money, power, and survival that explodes as their hockey teams meet. When a player's most closely guarded secret is revealed, a whole community is forced to show what it really wants to stand for. They will say that violence came to Beartown that year, but it will be a lie. The violence was already there. Fredrik Backman's Us Against Them, the stand alone sequel to Beartown, is a powerful depiction of the poignant and striking relationships of a small town. It's a story about loyalty, friendship, and a love that challenges everything.

      Us Against You2017
      4,5
    • "Things My Son Needs to Know About the World collects the personal dispatches from the front lines of one of the most daunting experiences any man can experience: fatherhood. As he conveys his profound awe at experiencing all the "firsts" that fill him with wonder and catch him completely unprepared, Fredrik Backman doesn't shy away from revealing his own false steps and fatherly flaws, tackling issues both great and small, from masculinity and mid-life crises to practical jokes and poop. In between the sleep-deprived lows and wonderful highs, Backman takes a step back to share the true story of falling in love with a woman who is his complete opposite, and learning to live a life that revolves around the people you care about unconditionally. Alternating between humorous side notes and longer essays offering his son advice as he grows up and ventures out into the world, Backman relays the big and small lessons in life"-- Provided by publisher

      Things My Son Needs to Know about the World2017
      4,0
    • A little book with a big heart—from the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Anxious People. “I read this beautifully imagined and moving novella in one sitting, utterly wowed, wanting to share it with everyone I know.” —Lisa Genova, bestselling author of Still Alice From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, and Anxious People comes an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man’s struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family’s efforts to care for him even as they must find a way to let go. With all the same charm of his bestselling full-length novels, here Fredrik Backman once again reveals his unrivaled understanding of human nature and deep compassion for people in difficult circumstances. This is a tiny gem with a message you’ll treasure for a lifetime.

      And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer2016
      4,4
    • A bank robber chased by the police ran into a company that had many customers coming to buy and sell houses. All customers have become hostages. Before the death, the hostages told each other about their lives. They wait to be rescued

      Anxious People2016
      4,4
    • Beartown

      • 432pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart. Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly shrinking with each passing year. But now the town is on the verge of an astonishing revival : A bright new future is just around the corner. Until the day it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act. It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up and forgotten, and those who'll risk the future to see justice done. At last, it falls to one young man to find the courage to speak the truth that it seems no one else wants to hear. With the town's future at stake, no one can stand by or stay silent. Everyone is on one side or the other.

      Beartown2016
      4,3
    • Britt-Marie was here

      • 312pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      Britt-Marie is a socially awkward, fussy busybody who is used to being organized. When she walks out on her cheating husband and gets a job as caretaker of the dilapidated recreation center in Borg, she is woefully unprepared for the changes. But as she takes on the task of leading the supremely untalented children's soccer team to victory, she just might find a place she belongs

      Britt-Marie was here2014
      4,1
    • "From the author of the internationally bestselling A Man Called Ove, a charming, warmhearted novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending her on a journey that brings to life the world of her grandmother's fairy tales"--

      My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry2014
      4,1
    • Dans le lotissement où il vit depuis quarante ans, Ove est connu pour être un râleur de la pire espèce. Enfermé dans sa routine maniaque, à cheval sur ses principes, il se méfie de tout et de tous. Depuis la mort de sa femme et son licenciement, tous les matins, il inspecte le quartier, peste contre les automobilistes, et cherche le meilleur moyen de se suicider. Le problème : un chat pelé et une tripotée de nouveaux voisins semblent bien décidés à ne pas le laisser mourir en paix...

      Vieux, râleur et suicidaire - La vie selon Ove2013
      4,4