A novel about an amazing, unpredictable life, family and friends (video)
09/03/2024
In the novel "My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry", as in his previous works, Fredrik Backman introduces readers to characters with unique and exceptional personalities. Within just a few pages, these characters become as close as family.
At the age of 25, the Swedish writer who had left theology and
worked as a truck driver decided to write first for newspapers and magazines,
and later for his blog. In 2013, he published his first novel. Backman’s books
are known for their bright and sharply domestic humor. A few years later, his
novels were translated into 40 languages and sold over five million copies.
"My
Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry" tells the story
of a seven-year-old girl and her grandmother. After the death of her beloved
grandmother, the young girl finds herself in an unusual, surprising, and
adventure-filled world. The story begins with letters that the girl must
deliver to her grandmother’s friends. The novel’s title is revealed through
these letters: "My grandmother says hello and says sorry." The
letters are meant to apologize to the grandmother's neighbors for any distress
she may have caused them.
Neighbors are a recurring theme in Backman’s work, featuring
prominently in his novel "A Man Called Ove". Like Ove, this novel can
also be described as a tragicomedy. Although the book is not intended for
children, the relationship between the grandmother and her grandchild, along
with the seven-year-old protagonist, gives it a childlike quality.
A novel about the amazing, unpredictable nature of life, the
importance of family, and the value of friends. With dozens of vividly drawn
characters, each with extraordinary charisma, "My
Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry" offers an
exciting and humorous exploration of life’s complexities.
The novel presents an engaging and amusing story of an elderly,
somewhat lost grandmother and a granddaughter who stands out from her peers. It
delves into themes of life, death, and being different. The main partner for
this book is the "Bukinist".
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Elsa is seven years old and different from the other children around. For example, shooting a paintball gun at strangers from a balcony. And she does it with her old and a little absent-minded grandmother, who is Elsa's only and best friend. Elsa takes refuge at night in her grandmother's stories, where everyone is different and no one has to be normal.
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother’s stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal.
When Elsa’s grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa’s greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother’s instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones but also to the truth about fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry is told with the same comic accuracy and beating heart as Fredrik Backman’s bestselling debut novel, A Man Called Ove. It is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different.
