My Grandmother Sends her Regards and Apologies

My Grandmother Sends her Regards and Apologies

Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy.
Author : Backman, Fredrik
Edition : Sceptre

Backman, Fredrik. My grandmother sends her regards and apologies. Sceptre, 2016. (F BAK)

Backman, Fredrik. Η γιαγιά μου σας χαιρετά και ζητάει συγγνώμη. Κέδρος, 2017. 

“Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy, standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball guns -at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus 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 letters lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and totally ordinary old crones, but also to the truth about fairytales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.”

                                                                                                         - from the Goodreads website

 

More books by the author

Backman, Fredrik. A man called Ove. Sceptre, 2015. (F BAC)

Backman_Freddrik "Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots-joggers, neighbours who can't reverse a trailer properly and shop assistants who talk in code. But isn't it rare, these days, to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and deed? Such unswerving conviction about what the world should be and a lifelong dedication to making it just so? In the end, you will see, there is something about Ove that is quite irresistible..."              

– from the back cover of the book

 Backman, Fredrik. Ένας άνθρωπος που τον έλεγαν Οβ. Πασχαλίδης, 2016.

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Backman, Fredrik. Beartown: a novel. Atria Books, 2017.

Backman, Fredrik. The deal of a lifetime. Atria Books, 2017.

Backman, Fredrik. Britt-Marie Was Here: a novel. Washington Square Press, 2017.

Backman, Fredrik. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer: a novella. Atria Books, 2016.

 

 

 

 

About the author

Backman_FredrikFredrik Backman (born 1981) is a Swedish author, blogger and columnist. He is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, as well as a novella, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer. His books are being published around the world in more than thirty-five languages. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children.

 

 

Critiques

Αγγέλα Γαβρίλη, «Το να έχεις μια γιαγιά είναι σαν έχεις μια στρατιά», http://www.diavasame.gr/, Σεπτέμβριος 2017

Ειρήνη Σταματοπούλου, Η μυθιστορία της ζωής και η πορεία προς την ωρίμανση, http://www.oanagnostis.gr/, 30.8.2017

Δημήτρης Κεχρής, Βάζοντας σε δοκιμασία την πραγματικότητα, "Το Περιοδικό", 11.7.2017

 

 

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Interesting websites and videos

http://fredrikbackmanbooks.com/ (Παρουσίαση του συγγραφέα και του έργου του από τον εκδότη του Simon & Schuster)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/29/books/a-man-called-ove-fredrik-backman-sweden-success.html (Άρθρο στο The New York Times για τον συγγραφέα και το βιβλίο του “A man called Ove”)

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/1/book-review-beartown/ (Κριτική για το “Beartown” και άλλα έργα του συγγραφέα στο The Washington Times)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFWz0FDY4YY (Βίντεο με συνέντευξη του συγγραφέα στον Hank Garner)

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