The winners: A novel / Fredrik Backman; translated by Neil Smith.
By: Backman, Fredrik
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Contributor(s): Smith, Neil [translator].
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BookPlace of publication: New York, NYPublisher: Atria BooksDate of publication: 2022Description: 670 pages: 23 cm.ISBN: 9781668010587.Subject(s): Beartown (Imaginary place) -- Fiction | Sweden -- FictionDDC classification: F B128 2022 WIN Summary: Over the course of two weeks, everything will change in Beartown.
Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. They can see how much Beartown has changed. There is a fresh sense of optimism and purpose here, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake.
The destruction caused by a ferocious late-summer storm reignites the old rivalry between Beartown and the neighboring town of Hed, a rivalry that has always been fought through their ice hockey teams. Simmering tensions turn into acts of intimidation and then violence. All the while, a fourteen-year-old boy grows inceasingly alienated from this hockey-obsessed community and is determined to take revenge on the people he holds responsible for his beloved sister's death. He has a pistol and a plan that will leave Beartown with a loss that is almost more than it can stand.
As it beautifully captures all the complexities of daily life and explores questions of friendship, loyalty, loss, and identity, this emotion-packed novel asks us to reconsider what it means to win, what it means to lose, and what it means to forgive.
(From the back cover)
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Over the course of two weeks, everything will change in Beartown.
Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. They can see how much Beartown has changed. There is a fresh sense of optimism and purpose here, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake.
The destruction caused by a ferocious late-summer storm reignites the old rivalry between Beartown and the neighboring town of Hed, a rivalry that has always been fought through their ice hockey teams. Simmering tensions turn into acts of intimidation and then violence. All the while, a fourteen-year-old boy grows inceasingly alienated from this hockey-obsessed community and is determined to take revenge on the people he holds responsible for his beloved sister's death. He has a pistol and a plan that will leave Beartown with a loss that is almost more than it can stand.
As it beautifully captures all the complexities of daily life and explores questions of friendship, loyalty, loss, and identity, this emotion-packed novel asks us to reconsider what it means to win, what it means to lose, and what it means to forgive.
(From the back cover)
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