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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Lars Kepler’s The Mirror Man claims the No. 2 spot on the Slovakian book retailer Martinus’s e-book bestseller list. Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger’s Smoke Screen features on the list as well, where it is No. 5.
Norway, Cappelen Damm
Two-book deal closed by Tor Jonasson
Slovenia, HKZ
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Germany, HarperCollins
Closed by Tor Jonasson
Italy, Mauri Spagnol / Tre60
Closed by Julia Angelin
Taiwan, Athena Press
Closed by The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of Emma Granberg
Romania, Publica
Closed by Emma Granberg
If part one (The Clan) in the trilogy is good, part 2 is even better. It’s a thrilling and unnerving read.
– Mariestads-Tidningen
[The Man Who Quit Dying] is a brutal, unpredictable, and very thrilling novel about a heist that could take any turn. Roslund’s prose is lively and effective.
– Expressen
Elizabeth the Third offers a powerful and nuanced portrayal of in-betweenness, as well as both overt and subtle forms of racism. /…/ The story carries both depth and a fresh perspective, while remaining engaging and entertaining.
– Västra Götalands bibliotek
When the Cranes Fly South is a global success and it’s well-deserved! (…) It’s [Ridzén’s] debut and I’m awestruck with admiration. /…/ It’s a truly heartrending, moving, intelligent novel. /…/ It’s very insightful. It genuinely is fantastic!
– Salut Bonjour TV
[The] book that’s making the whole planet cry right now.
– Radio-Canada
‘The Man Who Quit Dying’ is Anders Roslund’s first standalone novel. It is a breathless story of revenge and love; of putting it all on the line to protect what’s precious to you, and of choosing your own ending.
