![]() This amusing send-up of contemporary Swedish society is worth a look. ![]() ![]() While the prose is chockablock with odd metaphors (“Our hearts are bars of soap that we keep losing hold of”) and a plot twist leans on societal assumptions, Backman charms with his empathetic description of the robber, who gradually earns sympathy from the hostages. Backman layers the hostage scene with threads of backstory on Zara’s regret for denying a loan to a man ten years earlier, along with developments in Jack and Jim’s investigation. ![]() The appearance of a man wearing nothing but underwear and a bunny mask, hired by the flippers to sabotage the open house, adds to the drama. Meanwhile, father and son police officers Jim and Jack scramble into action. The attendees, including a heavily pregnant, first-time home-buying lesbian couple an apartment-flipping older couple and Zara, an executive at another bank, become hostages. ![]() After the police arrive, the amateur stickup artist flees and stumbles into an apartment’s open house. On the day before New Year’s Eve, in a “not particularly large or noteworthy town,” a desperate parent attempts to rob a bank in order to provide for two young children. Anxious People: A Novel Show full title By Fredrik Backman 4.5 / 5 ( 1,908 ratings ) About this ebook Written by Scribd Editors An apartment open-house changes from a run-of-the-mill real estate opportunity to a life-or-death struggle as a robber takes a group of strangers hostage at gunpoint. A diverse assortment of Swedes gets caught in an unlikely hostage situation in Backman’s witty, lighthearted romp (after Us Against You). ![]()
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