by Fredrik Blackman
My book club read this book for our June meeting. It's a story of rebirth for an elderly Swedish man who believes there's nothing left for him in this life until his new neighbor insists he open his eyes to the needs he can fill for those all around him.
Ove is a man of principles, principles established in his youth by watching and learning from his father, a quiet man of honesty and integrity.
Had Ove been the sort of man who contemplated how and when one became the sort of man one was, he might have said this was the day he learned that right has to be right. He contented himself with remembering that on this day he'd decided to be as little unlike his father as possible.I felt like the author dumped about every tragedy he could on poor Ove, but I guess he also showed that Ove's love for his wife made everything else unimportant.
But then he saw her on the platform with all her rich auburn hair and her blue eyes and all her effervescent laughter. And he got back on the outbound train. Of course, he didn't quite know himself why he was doing it. He had never been spontaneous before in his life. But when he saw her it was if something malfunctioned.Doing what is right saves Ove's life and his heart.
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