书名：Beartown熊镇

作者：Fredrik Backman

出版社名称：Penguin

出版时间：2018 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9781405930208 

商品尺寸：12.9 x 3 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装 

页数：496（以实物为准）

Review

I wasn't sure I would love a novel centred on hockey - but as with Friday Night Lights this is actually a story about people - about strength and tribal loyalty and what we unwittingly do when trying to show our boys how to be men. I utterly believed in the residents of Beartown, and felt ripped apart by the events in the book (Jojo Moyes bestselling author of Me Before You)

Surrounded by impenetrable forests, it recreates the stifling atmosphere of a dying community. This is a mature, compassionate novel. (Sunday Times)

A story about families, about friendship and loyalty, inequality, female vulnerability, male back-slapping, and parenthood ... No person's story is too little to be told, Backman includes them all. A novel with a big heart (Jönköpings-Posten, Sweden)

A kind of problem play that moves extremely skilfully near the melodramatic without derailing. Its originality is substantial and the book credibly conveys the dual faces of everyday life. An impressive novel, like no other (BTJ, Sweden)

In a large Swedish forest Beartown hides a dark secret . . .

Cut-off from everywhere else it experiences the kind of isolation that tears people apart.

And each year more and more of the town is swallowed by the forest.

Then the town is offered a bright new future.

But it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act.

It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up and forgotten, and those who'll risk the future to see justice done.

Who will speak up?

Could you stand by and stay silent?

Or would you risk everything for justice?

Which side would you be on?

'Surrounded by impenetrable forests, Beartown recreates the stifling atmosphere of a dying community. A mature, compassionate novel' Sunday Times

'You'll love this engrossing novel' People

'Backman is a masterful writer' Kirkus Review

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 Backmanis 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.