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A Man Called Ove: A Novel by Fredrik Backman | Conversation Starters Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman | Conversation Starters

There is a man who has lost all hope in life. He has been brought up to do the right thing, but has never been able to show much emotion. After the death of his beloved wife, Ove has no reason to live. That is until an Iranian woman named Parwaneh shows up next door with her clumsy husband and two adorable daughters.

Gradually, Ove realizes that as much as he misses his wife, he could contribute something to society and, in turn, gain from other people.

A heartwarming and simple story of a man who finds a purpose in life, A Man Called Ove is humorous and heartrending in equal parts.

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Listening Length	17 minutes
Author	dailyBooks
Narrator	Bryan Nyman
Audible.com.au Release Date	12 July 2016
Publisher	dailyBooks
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B01IAEZA5M
Best Sellers Rank	116,080 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 43 in Theories of Humour 46 in History & Criticism of Literary Humour 156 in Book Notes for Young Adults

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A must read

Reviewed in Canada on 4 July 2016

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Loved, loved this book! A bit quirky to start. Certainly up there with 100 year old man who climbed out of the window and the Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry?

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Ove is Ove

Reviewed in the United States on 23 September 2016

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The book itself is terrific, one minute engendering sympathy, the next laughter. Ove is Ove. This questionnaire is rather silly, because an attempt to analyze the characters would eliminate the silent acceptance and understanding of them that comes from reading. The author writes so well, no analysis is necessary. They are fictional characters, not real. To equate them with real people is not the correct perception. I do not like this questionnaire, but if I marked it one star, the judges might think that was a reference to the book.
To summarize this review:
The book *****
The questionnaire. *

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Lindsey M

Yes, the problem with buying online - same thing happened to me. Caution!!!!! Don't buy this version!

Reviewed in the United States on 28 May 2016

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Cautionary tale: if you don't want an extremely abbreviated version of the book and a bunch of book discussion questions you could get for free elsewhere, don't make the same mistake I made. Very misleading product placement - I want my $3.99 back to apply to the actual full edition of the book I intended to order.

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My wife loved it

Reviewed in the United States on 21 June 2016

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The wife read it for book club and loved it. A book about a guy who keeps trying to kill himself and failing sounds odd to me, but she said it was actually a sweet book.

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Tiger

A man called Ove

Reviewed in the United States on 26 April 2016

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It was really entertaining. I really laughed at how he judged everyone by the kind of car they drove.

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