My grandmother asks her to forgive - Fredrik Backman

Fredrik Backman is a Swedish blogger, journalist and writer whose book debut took place in 2012. His novels A Husband Called Ove (the film adaptation of the novel won an Oscar in 2016), My Grandmother Asks You to Forgive Her and Britt-Marie Was Here have been translated into twenty-five languages. The book “My Grandmother Asks You to Forgive Her” became a bestseller in the USA, Germany, Norway, Iceland, South Korea and Japan. In total, about two million copies of this novel have already been sold worldwide. Elga is seven, and she is not like the others. Her Grandmothers are seventy-seven, and she's incredibly crazy—if, for example, standing-on-the-balcony-and-passers-by-with-a-paintball-guns is considered crazy. And grandmother is Elsa’s best – and only – friend. Every night, Elsa hides from the world in her grandmother's stories about the Land of Sprosson and the Kingdom of Miamas, where no one has to be “normal.” But when Grandma dies and remains to live only in letters written to those to whom she felt guilty, that’s when the biggest adventure begins... “It’s not often that you get into your hands a book that you not only read, but that immerses you in absolutely another world,” says co-founder of #bookwriter Svetlana Paveletskaya. – This novel by Backman sold more than 500,000 copies in Sweden alone. I think because the book is about the child inside each of us. It is very rare that a book is both funny and touching, when you turn from tears to laughter. This is exactly what a tragicomedy should be. It's like Jarmusch's Broken Flowers, but a book. This is when difficult things about forgiveness, acceptance, inner peace, how to let go of people and thoughts are conveyed so easily that it’s hard to believe it.” “My Grandmother Asks Her to Forgive” is a book about life: sad and funny, painful and fascinating at the same time, and also about one of the most important human rights - the right to be different. Media reviews: “Fredrik Backman has a knack for weaving tales, believable and whimsical. Buckman's smooth storytelling imbues his characters with charm and wit... An incredible story." St. Louis Post-Dispatch “This is a great story about learning to be different in a world that often doesn’t accept our otherness. About the love between grandmother and granddaughter. This is a story that will make you laugh, make you cry and love the characters that only Fredrik Backman could create." Anna Flynn, Watermark Books.