As it turns out, love has everything to do with it. (Later checking online there are many famous Scandanavian men called Ove.) But I’m English speaking, and I can’t help but hear the refrain from one of my favorite Tina Turner songs- “What’s love got to do with it?”īackman spends the rest of the book answering this question, even as Ove protests. However, the author is Swedish, so maybe not so unusual. My mind corrects -no, not “love.” It’s Ove-an unusual name. He exists, he’s of an age, and he’s called “Ove.” On first glance at the book’s cover, I read “Love.” My brain wanted to insert the missing “L.” Hmm. “Ove is fifty-nine.” That opening line, which is the complete first paragraph of Fredrik Backman’s bestselling novel A Man Called Ove, contains a world of inference about the curmudgeonly character.
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