1 A Man Called Ove Goes to Buy a Computer That Isn't a Computer / 2 (3 Weeks Ago) A Man Called Ove Tours the Neighborhood / 3 A Man Called Ove Backs Up His Trailer / 4 A Man Called Ove Doesn't Pay His 3 Kronor Extra Fee / 5 A Man Called Ove / 6 A Man Called Ove and the Bicycle That Should Have Been Where It Was / 7 A Man Called Ove Drills a Hole for a Hook / 8 A Man Called Ove and His Father's Old Pair of Footprints / 9 A Man Called Ove Lets Off Steam from the Radiator / 10 A Man Called Ove and the House He Built / 11 A Man Called Ove and the Long Pole Who Can't Open a Window Without Falling Off a Ladder / 12 A Man Called Ove and One Day When Enough Was Enough / 13 A Man Called Ove and a Clown Called Beppo / 14 A Man Called Ove and the Woman on the Train / 15 A Man Called Ove and the Delayed Train / 16 A Man Called Ove and a Truck in the Forest / 17 A Man Called Ove and the Troublesome Cat Buried in a Snowdrift / 18 The Man Called Ove and the Cat Called Ernest / 19 The Man Called Ove and the Injured Cat / 20 The Man Called Ove and the Intruder / 21 The Man Called Ove and the Countries Playing Foreign Music in Restaurants / 22 The Man Called Ove and the Man Trapped in the Garage / 23 The Man Called Ove and the Bus That Never Arrived / 24 The Man Called Ove and the Little Boy Painting / 25 The Man Called Ove and the Corrugated Iron / 26 The Man Called Ove and the World Where You Can't Fix a Bicycle Anymore / 27 The Man Called Ove and Driving Lessons / 28 The Man Called Ove and the Man Called Rune / 29 The Man Called Ove and the Homosexual / 30 The Man Called Ove and Society Without Him / 31 The Man Called Ove Backs Up a Trailer, Again / 32 The Man Called Ove is Not a Damned Hotel Owner / 33 The Man Called Ove and an Unusual Inspection / 34 The Man Called Ove and the Boy Next Door / 35 The Man Called Ove and the Social Incompetent / 36 The Man Called Ove and a Glass of Whiskey / 37 A Man Called Ove and the Countless Nosy Men / 38 A Man Called Ove and the End of the Story / 39 A Man Called Ove / A Man Called Ove and the Epilogue

“At the worst moment of my life, I met the best neighbor!”
For you who are enduring lonely times alone
The 'warm nagging' of 'annoying neighbors'

Every morning at 6:15 a.m., a man wakes up without an alarm.
Always drink the same amount of coffee at the same time.
The amount of coffee left in the coffee pot is always constant.
Then he goes out to inspect the village.
To check if any of the facilities are broken, or more accurately, if someone has 'broken' them.
Ove, a 59-year-old man who has lived in the same house for 40 years, done the same routine, and worked at the same job for a third of a century.
The 31-year-old young managers told him:
‘Wouldn’t it be nice to live a little more leisurely now?’
With these words, Ove is kicked out of the job he has dedicated his life to.
Just because they are from the 'older generation'.


In this situation, the void left by his wife, who left him six months ago, is particularly large.
But what would the world be like if everyone left their jobs because they had no wives, because they were struggling? That's why Ove never missed a single day of work.
I've been repeating the same routine over and over again.
But now there is no one to take responsibility and no job.
Ove, who cannot find a reason to live, makes a promise.
I decided to follow my wife.
A sturdy hook and rope were also prepared.
But then an annoying family moves in and disturbs him.
These are the type of people that Ove hates.
It's a total mess with a stupid guy who can't even reverse a trailer, a pregnant woman who's heavily pregnant, and a bunch of kids who are all messed up.
Moreover, he keeps interfering in Ove's life as a neighbor...
Ah, why can't you just let me die quietly as I please?

“Living together means,
“It was a miracle that happened every day without anyone knowing!”
The power that allows people to live is ultimately people.

Ove, a man who chooses to be a loner because he cannot understand a world where people become obsolete before their lives are over and people who are so stupid that they can't even change a tire with their own hands while using an iPad without a keyboard.
However, he cannot bear to turn away the helping hands of his neighbors, so he ends up becoming the village's problem solver.
The novel movingly depicts the gradual transformation of a hard-core, principled man who believes that everything has its limits and cannot tolerate any deviation from order, through his neighbors.
The process of becoming close to and forming friendships with others who we once thought were so different from us resonates deeply with us as we live through an age of isolation, alienation, and indifference.

Author Fredrik Backman conveys the message through this reissue that “living with other people is extremely difficult, but living without them is truly difficult.”
This book will provide warm comfort to those in need, comforting laughter to those weary of everyday life, and a landmark to those who have lost their sense of direction in life.
Above all, it makes us realize that even if society is harsh and bleak, we must cry and laugh together within relationships, and that the power that allows people to live is ultimately people.