fredrik backman my grandmother sends her regards and apologises

However, it is not long into the book when the fairly complex and very childlike fairytales seem to take over the real story. The book starts off with some laugh-out-humour which makes you think, 'hmmm, just what the doctor ordered.' At this point too, I thought, my 12 year old needs to be in on this so, I let him listen to a few chapters and confirmed its a book for both young adults and adults. It is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different. My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises is told with the same comic accuracy and beating heart as Fredrik Backman's best-selling debut novel, A Man Called Ove. 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 fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other. So when Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has hurt, it marks the beginning of Elsa's greatest adventure. There everybody is different, and nobody needs to be normal. She is also Elsa's best and only friend.Īt night Elsa runs to her grandmother's stories, to the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas. Standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus crazy. Her grandmother is 77 years old and crazy. Something Elsa can't quite put her finger on.Įlsa is seven years old and different. But lately the stories have another dimension as well. In the beginning they were only to make Elsa go to sleep, to get her to practise Granny's secret language, and a little because Granny is just about as nutty as a granny should be.

Granny has been telling fairy tales for as long as Elsa can remember. The hilarious, heart-breaking novel by the author of the international best seller A Man Called Ove.

Fredrik backman my grandmother sends her regards and apologises