Fredrik Backman’s Anxious People has been named one of Amazon’s Best Books of 2020. Each year, Amazon.com’s editorial team chooses the best books of the year in the popular categories, including that of “Literature & Fiction” in which Anxious People can be found.
In addition, the novel is included in the “Editors’ Holiday Gift Picks” under the “Notable Novels” feature.
Lars Kepler’s The Mirror Man stays at No. 1 on the official e-book bestseller list in Norway. Not far behind is Jørn Lier Horst’s A Question of Guilt at No. 3. Kristina Ohlsson meanwhile lays claim to the No. 5 spot on the paperback list with To Him Who Knocks.
Simon Stålenhag – the No. 1 bestselling author and illustrator of Tales From the Loop and The Electric State – makes his highly anticipated debut as a director today. His first production is nothing less than the music video for Geronimo, the Grammy Award-nominated artist Duvchi’s new single from his upcoming album, This Kind of Ocean. The dreamily romantic pop / R&B tune Geronimo features the vocals of Nadia Nair, hailed by Clash Magazine and MTV as an “artist of the future to look out for.”
In the music video, Stålenhag also pairs up with the talented visual effects and post production team at Goodbye Kansas Studios (The Walking Dead, Chernobyl) to give life to everything from the video’s protagonist – the robotic yet dove-like figure of “Hector,” created by Stålenhag – to the fantastical beasts lured from the deep by the spellbinding tune.
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The nominees for 2020’s Adlibris Awards have been announced. Adlibris is the leading book retailer in the Nordics and last year, the Adlibris Award was founded to celebrate the site’s most popular titles. 10 titles in 9 different categories are nominated by a jury of Adlibris employees, and all titles must have been published during 2020.
A new category added this year is the ‘Debutant’ one, in which Klas Ekman’s recently published Capable People can be found.
Amongst the nominated titles in the ‘Crime Fiction’ category are Stina Jackson’s The Last Snow, Hans Rosenfeldt’s When Crying Wolf, Jo Nesbø’s The Kingdom and Lars Kepler’s The Mirror Man.
Fans have until December 8 to cast their votes in each respective category. The winners will be announced on January 25, 2021.
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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.
Norway, Cappelen Damm
Three-book deal closed by Josephine Oxelheim
Croatia, Ibis Grafika
Closed by Ida Schabbauer
Latvia, Zvaigzne ABC
Two-book deal closed by Ida Schabbauer
Netherlands, Bruna
Three-book deal closed by Julia Angelin
Czech Republic, Host
Closed by Josephine Oxelheim
Slovakia, Ikar
Closed by Emma Granberg
[The Devil’s Trick is] claustrophobically thrilling from the very first page. /…/ [T]his is a brilliant combination of thrilling entertainment and a gripping portrayal from inside forensic psychiatry.
– Skånska Dagbladet
The characters and their challenges are portrayed with great empathy, and they vividly come to life before the reader in a way that makes it impossible to do anything but grow fond of their somewhat quirky personalities.
– Danish Library Report
Between the threads of this tightly woven narrative, Engman manages to bring to life a whole gallery of characters who are very likable yet no less complex—all of them memorable, even the minor ones.
– Télérama
The reason for [Ahnhem’s] success is simple: he writes like a god and keeps us on the torture rack until the very last page. /…/ Generation Zero has all the ingredients to be this summer’s big crime novel. It is thrilling, realistic, and impossible to put down.
– Nettavisen
This novel explores the different facets of a divorce in order to examine all the little things that extinguish love. Fascinating.
– Version Femina
A touching and poignant tale of an aging father and his middle-aged daughter, exploring themes of nurturing and reconciliation, and the profound layers of life often hidden from those closest to us – a story about love, and about making things right, before it’s too late.