About the Book: Man Called Otto
At first sight, Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He
thinks himself surrounded by idiots - neighbours who can't reverse a trailer
properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the
vicious coup d'etat that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents' Association.
He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets.
But isn't it rare, these days, to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and
deed? Such unswerving conviction about what the world should be, and a lifelong
dedication to making it just so?
In the end, you