书名：My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry 外婆的道歉信/我奶奶让我告诉你她很抱歉
作者：Fredrik Backman弗雷德里克·巴克曼
出版社名称：Washington Square Press
出版时间：2016
语种：英文
ISBN：9781501115073
商品尺寸：13.5 x 2.5 x 21 cm
包装：平装
页数：400

★外婆说，要大笑，要做梦，要与众不同。人生是一场伟大的冒险。
★2016年掀起全球阅读狂潮的温情小说，畅销40国，遍布欧美几乎每家书店。
★你会被这个过分活泼的外婆逗得大笑，更会因为她留下的道歉信而默默饮泪。
★自上市以来连续霸占《纽约时报》畅销榜50周至今，仅10个月内全球销量已突破150万册。
★Twitter和Instragram上，万人晒照推荐。
★巴克曼让我们爱上这个活泼过头的外婆，也重新爱上生活。
★献给每一个依然热爱故事的大人。
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry《外婆的道歉信》一定会成为你爱不释手并且向朋友极力推荐的一本书。
这本书里有个“活泼过头”的外婆：她带着七岁的外孙女爱莎夜闯动物园看猴子；用屎球打警察；开车时一边抽烟一边吃烤肉，用膝盖控制方向盘；给雪人穿衣服，让邻居误以为有人从阳台上跌下去；敞开睡衣站阳台上，用彩弹枪射击推销员；从宜家偷黄色购物袋；甚至在男护士身上揩油。关于外婆的每件事都让人既好气又好笑。
或许你会觉得这个没正经的外婆简直太疯癫了，但她却是爱莎心中的超级英雄，因为为了外孙女她不惜与世界为敌。然而有一天，外婆因为癌症不幸去世了，留给了爱莎一项艰巨的任务——送道歉信。跟着爱莎的脚步，关于外婆以及更多古怪的邻居们的故事会逐渐展开，你会爱上这些平凡、有缺点、被命运伤害，但依然可爱的人。他们让你想起生活本身。
作者弗雷德里克·巴克曼是近年欧美畅销书榜单上当之无愧的金字招牌。成名作《一个叫欧维的男人决定去死》让他一炮而红。而《外婆的道歉信》则将巴克曼稳稳推上畅销作家之列。他尤其擅长讲故事，往往只用一两句对话或者一件小事，就能给读者留下非常深刻的印象。他笔下的人物来自瑞典上下不同的阶级、年龄，从小女孩到流浪汉，远远越过了巴克曼同龄的世代的限制。这些角色非常接地气，充满生活气息，比如说他们对于超市里什么商品正在打折，全都一清二楚。
阅读巴克曼的小说很大的感受就是一会儿哭一会儿笑，有时两者同时发生。《外婆的道歉信》会是你非常难忘的一本小说，并且在很长一段时间里，你都会不断想起这位超级外婆，也许还会想念自己的外婆。
A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of theNew York Times bestsellerA Man Called Ove.
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother’s stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal.
When Elsa’s grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa’s greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother’s instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones but also to the truth about fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry is told with the same comic accuracy and beating heart as Fredrik Backman’s bestselling debut novel,A Man Called Ove. It is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different.

七岁的爱莎有个古怪又疯狂的外婆，会埋伏在雪堆里吓唬邻居，把重要的事情记在墙上因为墙不会丢，半夜从医院溜出来带着爱莎翻进动物园，在阳台上用彩弹枪射击推销员，基本上想干什么就干什么。这个四处惹麻烦的外婆却是爱莎唯1的朋友，也是她心中的超级英雄。不管什么情况下，外婆都会站在爱莎这一边，为了她去跟全世界拼命。
就算是超级英雄，也有失去超能力的一天。外婆不幸得了癌症去世，留给爱莎一项艰巨的任务—将外婆的道歉信送给她得罪过的九个邻居。收信人包括一只爱吃糖果的大狗，一个总在不停洗手的怪物，一个管东管西的烦人精和一个酗酒的心理医生。这一趟送信之旅让爱莎渐渐发现：外婆和邻居们的故事，比她听过的所有童话都更加精彩。
这是一个关于爱、原谅和守护的故事，在合上书之后很久都难以忘记。
“Granny has been telling fairy tales for as long as Elsa can remember. In the beginning they were only to make Elsa go to sleep, and to get her to practise granny’s secret language, and a little because granny is just about as nutty as a granny should be. But lately the stories have another dimension as well. Something Elsa can’t quite put her finger on...”
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy. Standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus-crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa runs to her grandmother’s stories, to the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas. There, everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal.
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. 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 fairytales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.
My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises is told with the same comic accuracy and beating heart as Fredrik Backman’s bestselling debut novel,A Man Called Ove. It is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different.

弗雷德里克·巴克曼，1981年出生于瑞典赫尔辛堡，以撰写博客和专栏起家。某天他把自己和老爸在宜家吵架的过程写在博客上，妙趣横生的对话让他瞬间爆红，吸引众多网友到巴克曼的博客讨论和吐槽自己的家人。结果他灵机一动，以此创作出《一个叫欧维的男人决定去死》，开启了自己的畅销书作家之路。
《外婆的道歉信》是巴克曼的第二本小说，在世界各国都取得了巨大成功，巴克曼因此成为2016年瑞典年度作家。他对日常生活极具洞察力，作品风趣活泼，笔下的人物生动真实，让读者笑中带泪，感悟人生。
如今他和妻子及两个孩子居住在瑞典斯德哥尔摩。
Fredrik Backman is the #1New York Times bestselling author ofA Man Called Ove (soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks),My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry,Britt-Marie Was Here,Beartown,Us Against You, as well as two novellas,And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer andThe Deal of a Lifetime. His books are published in more than forty countries. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children.

TOBACCO
Every seven-year-old deserves a superhero. That’s just how it is.
Anyone who doesn’t agree needs their head examined.
That’s what Elsa’s granny says, at least.
Elsa is seven, going on eight. She knows she isn’t especially good at being seven. She knows she’s different. Her headmaster says she needs to “fall into line” in order to achieve “a better fit with her peers.” Other adults describe her as “very grown-up for her age.” Elsa knows this is just another way of saying “massively annoying for her age,” because they only tend to say this when she corrects them for mispronouncing “déjà vu” or not being able to tell the difference between “me” and “I” at the end of a sentence. Smart-asses usually can’t, hence the “grown-up for her age” comment, generally said with a strained smile at her parents. As if she has a mental impairment, as if Elsa has shown them up by not being totally thick just because she’s seven. And that’s why she doesn’t have any friends except Granny. Because all the other seven-year-olds in her school are as idiotic as seven-year-olds tend to be, but Elsa is different.
She shouldn’t take any notice of what those muppets think, says Granny. Because all the best people are different—look at superheroes. After all, if superpowers were normal, everyone would have them.
Granny is seventy-seven years old, going on seventy-eight. She’s not very good at it either. You can tell she’s old because her face looks like newspaper stuffed into wet shoes, but no one ever accuses Granny of being grown-up for her age. “Perky,” people sometimes say to Elsa’s mum, looking either fairly worried or fairly angry as Mum sighs and asks how much she owes for the damages. Or when Granny’s smoking at the hospital sets the fire alarm off and she starts ranting and raving about how “everything has to be so bloody politically correct these days!” when the security guards make her extinguish her cigarette. Or that time she made a snowman in Britt-Marie and Kent’s garden right under their balcony and dressed it up in grown-up clothes so it looked as if a person had fallen from the roof. Or that time those prim men wearing spectacles started ringing all the doorbells and wanted to talk about God and Jesus and heaven, and Granny stood on her balcony with her dressing gown flapping open, shooting at them with her paintball gun, and Britt-Marie couldn’t quite decide if she was most annoyed about the paintball-gun thing or the not-wearing-anything-under-the-dressing-gown thing, but she reported both to the police just to be on the safe side.
Those are the times, Elsa supposes, that people find Granny perky for her age.
They also say that Granny is mad, but in actual fact she’s a genius. It’s just that she’s a bit of a crackpot at the same time. She used to be a doctor, and she won prizes and journalists wrote articles about her and she went to all the most terrible places in the world when everyone else was getting out. She saved lives and fought evil everywhere on earth. As superheroes do.