Ove draws on the memory of Sonja to encourage him to do the right thing-since he fears that she'll be upset with him if he shows up in the afterlife having left something done incorrectly on earth.
After she dies of cancer, Ove visits her grave weekly and leaves pink flowers on her headstone. Sonja worked to make life as bright and lively as possible, though Ove was constantly bewildered by her refusal to adhere to his carefully laid travel plans or routines and insisted she didn't understand his desire to live according to principles. Rather than spend the rest of her life grieving, Sonja threw herself into teaching troubled students to read Shakespeare. His books are published in more than forty countries. There, they were involved in a bus accident that paralyzed Sonja from the waist down and caused her to miscarry her pregnancy. Fredrik Backman is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, Beartown, Us Against You, and Anxious People, as well as two novellas and one work of nonfiction. Originally published in Sweden, this charming debut novel by Backman should find a ready audience with English-language readers. Right after she and Ove got married and moved into their row house, they went to Spain on a bus tour. Fredrik Backman made his literary debut in 2012 with the global sensation A Man Called Ove.He has written seven highly acclaimed novels, including My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises and Britt-Marie Was Here two heartfelt novellas about life and love and one non-fiction book about parenthood. She grew up with her father and a massive cat, Ernest, and met Ove when she moved to town to study to be a teacher. She also loved talking, and Ove loved listening to her talk. She was very beautiful and loved color, chaos, and the humanities. Sonja is Ove's late wife, who dies six months before the start of the novel.
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