En este "encantador debut" (People) y bestseller del New York Times —que próximamente será una gran producción cinematográfica protagonizada por Tom Hanks— de uno de los autores suecos más exitosos, un hombre gruñón pero adorable encuentra su solitario mundo patas arriba cuando una joven y escandalosa pareja se mudan a la casa de al lado.

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"A breathtaking new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove, The Winners returns to the close-knit, resilient community of Beartown for a story about first loves, second chances, and last goodbyes. Over the course of two weeks, everything in Beartown will change. Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite...

A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to be easy or fair. No matter how difficult times get, they've always been able to take pride in their local ice hockey team. So it's a cruel blow when they hear that Beartown ice hockey might soon be disbanded. What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former Beartown players, who now play for a rival team in the neighboring...

A curmudgeon hides a terrible personal loss beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior while clashing with new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship. Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'....

"[A] ... 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. "Isn't that the best of all life's ages, an old man thinks as he looks at his grandchild, when a boy is just big enough to know how the world works but still young enough to refuse to accept it." Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller...

"Visitar un apartamento en venta no es una situacion de vida o muerte. A menos que sea la vispera de Nochevieja, vivas en una pequena ciudad en Suecia y alguien haya tenido la peor idea de su vida y decidido atracar un banco que no maneja efectivo. Entonces, si lo es. Porque, cuando alguien es asi de idiota, es inevitable que no sepa como huir y termine en un apartamento en venta tomando rehenes sin querer. Pero puedes confiar en la policia. A menos...

"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...

"Del autor de Gente ansiosa, bestseller # 1 del New York Times, una deslumbrante y profunda novela sobre un pueblo chico con un sueño grande y el precio que debe pagar para hacerlo realidad. Cerca del lago en Beartown hay una pista de hielo, y en la pista Kevin, Amat, Benji y el resto del Equipo junior de hockey sobre hielo está a punto de competir en la semifinal nacional; y, de hecho, tiene la oportunidad de ganar. Todos los sueños y esperanzas...

"Tras dejar a su esposo infiel, Britt-Marie encuentra trabajo como encargada en el casi clausurado centro civico de Borg, un abandonado y ruinoso pueblo del que lo unico bueno que puede decirse es que tiene una carretera. Esta quisquillosa mujer se vera envuelta en la vida de sus nuevos vecinos, un grupo de malhechores, borrachos y holgazanes que le demostraran que la vida va mas alla de tener un cajon de los cubiertos ordenado. Pero su reto mas grande...

"Cosas que mi hijo necesita saber sobre el mundo recopila los despachos personales desde el frente de batalla de una de las experiencias mas abrumadoras que cualquier hombre puede experimentar: la paternidad. Mientras transmite su profundo asombro al experimentar todas las "primicias" que lo llenan de asombro. y atraparlo completamente desprevenido, Fredrik Backman no se averguenza de revelar sus propios pasos en falso y defectos paternales, abordando...