Book review: A man Called Ove
Title: A Man called Ove Author: Fredrik Backman Meet OVE, a kvetch, recently unemployed and not so recently widowed. He believes everything should be run in an orderly manner. For him, A real man wakes up at 6, brews his coffee himself (without machine, ofcourse), and then goes out for morning rituals. Ove is a grumpy old sod, who is for the most part of novel; a bitter neighbour & an old-fashioned man. The author has done a fantabulous job in building his character; From a grumpy old man who is disciplined, devoid of emotions to the Lovely Ove, who still curses everything that happens around him but carries on with it. Ove's wife Sonja, who according to him was the only person who understood him, was a beautiful, stunning & compassionate lady. As Ove puts it, " He was a man of black & white. She was the colour. All the colour he had." Sonja left Ove in this disorderly life alone. Ove gives up on life and starts making plans to reach her. BUT, p...
