Anxious People by Fredrik Backman has made it to the final round of the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards in the “Fiction” category. The final voting round takes place between November 17 and 30, during which Goodreads members have one last chance to vote for their favorite in each category. The ultimate award winners in each category will be announced on December 8.
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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman is the winner of the Ozon Book Awards 2020 in the “Best Fiction” category. Ozon is the Russian equivalent of Amazon and one of Russia’s largest book retailers.
Fredrik Backman’s Anxious People has just been published in Russia and is currently No. 1 at Moscow Books – one of the country’s largest book retailers.
What ought one do with one’s life? Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen knows the answer because he calculates everything down to the very last decimal.
Then everything changes. After suddenly losing his job, Henri inherits an adventure park from his brother – its peculiar employees and troubling financial problems included. The most dire of these financial problems appear to originate from big loans taken from criminal quarters, now keen to get their money back.
In the adventure park, Henri also crosses paths with Laura, an artist with a checkered past. As the criminals begin to collect their debts and as Henri’s relationship with Laura deepens, he finds himself faced with situations and emotions that simply cannot be pinned down in his spread sheets.
The first installment in a forthcoming trilogy, Antti Tuomainen’s The Rabbit Factor is a darkly comic novel about love, death and insurance mathematics.
A search and rescue team is sent into the remote and isolated Icelandic highlands to search for a group of missing people. What compelled them to enter the area in the middle of the harsh winter, into darkness and snowstorms? And why did they leave what little shelter they had, underdressed and vulnerable to the harsh conditions?
Meanwhile at the isolated radar station in Stokksnes, strange events take place. Here nothing is what it seems. Be it the pool of blood discovered in the pristine snow far from civilization, a small children’s shoe unearthed after being buried for decades or the gaping black hole in the bedrock by the sea that seems to attract people…
The Prey is a blood-curling and unnerving novel, guaranteed to make you shiver. In this stunning stand-alone thriller Yrsa Sigurdardottir proves once again that ”she is a generator of fear quite as adroit as such writers as Stephen King” (The Independent).
The Mirror Man, the latest title from the internationally acclaimed author duo Lars Kepler, is No. 1 in Sweden also this week. For the third week in a row, the novel is No. 1 in the three categories hardcover, e-books, and audio.
Operation Red Ribbon, Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ eighteenth Detective Agency No. 2 book, is No. 2 on the children’s books bestseller list for the month of October. The No. 5 spot goes to William Wenton and the Centrifugal Catastrophe, the sixth William Wenton book by Bobbie Peers.
Lars Kepler’s The Mirror Man claims the No. 1 spot on the Norwegian e-book list, additionally coming in at No. 3 in hardcover. Jørn Lier Horst’s A Question of Guilt is No. 3 in e-books and No. 5 in hardcover. The paperback list’s No. 5 placement goes to Kristina Ohlsson’s To Him Who Knocks.
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman is a nominee for the fifth annual Book of the Year Award.
The Book of the Year Award is the US book club Book of the Month’s prestigious and highly coveted prize, with nominees that represent some of the best and most popular fiction read by millennial women in 2020.
Starting on Thursday, November 13, the book club members will be able to vote for the best book of the year. The winner will be announced in December.
Fredrik Backman’s latest novel, Anxious People, has made it into the semifinal-round of the Goodreads Choice Awards in the Fiction category. The voting period for the semifinals ends on November 15, and a winner will be announced shortly after.
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Italy, Marsilio
Three-book deal closed by Tor Jonasson
Poland, Wydawnictwo Zakamarki
Closed by Linda Andersson
Vietnam, Asia Book
Closed by Emma Granberg
Norway, Tjihkkom Almmudahka
Closed by Linda Andersson
Finland, Tammi
Two-book deal closed by Linda Andersson
Denmark, Turbine
Two-book deal closed by Linda Andersson
Dahl has worked wonders with this one. /…/ Creepy and suspenseful from Dahl, without a doubt his best crime novel ever.
– Randaberg24
It is no coincidence that I get associations to James Bond. (…) The series about Leo Asker also evokes associations with Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander, and even with Adler-Olsen. /…/ The book unfolds at a brisk pace, with several parallel plots (…) it is a grotesquely entertaining thriller.
– Dagbladet
Pascal Engman efficiently carves out believable portraits of the increasingly rich gallery of characters. /…/ It’s not far off to associate The Clan with The Godfather.
– Verdens Gang
I find myself wanting to read it over and over again to discover everything hidden between the lines. As a love story for a lower high school audience, it’s a true gem.
– Dagens Nyheter
Engman delivers a jarring portrayal of reality in fictional form, a highly effective combination of entertainment and contemporary criticism.
– Adresseavisen
What does it really mean to be in debt to someone? How does our financial worth permeate the ways we think and feel? And what do we lose when we supposedly win? ‘Small Comfort’ skewers its characters, slyly implicating the reader along the way.