![]() ![]() ![]() A novel with a big heart Jonkopings-Posten, Sweden A kind of problem play that moves extremely skilfully near the melodramatic without derailing. No person's story is too little to be told, Backman includes them all. Which side would you be on?Ī story about families, about friendship and loyalty, inequality, female vulnerability, male back-slapping, and parenthood. With the town's future at stake, no one can stand by or stay silent. At last, it falls to one young man to find the courage to speak the truth that it seems no one else wants to hear. 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. Until the day it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act. ![]() Change is in the air and a bright new future is just around the corner. But now the town is on the verge of an astonishing revival. Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly shrinking with each passing year. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart. ![]() This is the story of how we got there.' Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. 'Late one evening towards the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barrelled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else's forehead and pulled the trigger. ![]()
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