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Fredrik Backman is a Swedish blogger, journalist and author who made his book debut in 2012. His novels include A Man Called Uwe (the film adaptation of the novel won an Oscar in 2016), A Man Called Uwe;My Grandmother Asks Her to Forgive Her and Britt-Marie Was Here have been translated into twenty-five languages. The book My Grandmother Asks Her to Forgive Her became a bestseller in the USA, Germany, Norway, Iceland, South Korea and Japan. In total, about two million copies of the novel have been sold worldwide.

Elsa is seven, and she is not like the others. Her grandmother is seventy-seven, and she is incredibly crazy - if you count standing on a balcony and shooting passers-by with a paintball gun as crazy, for example. Elsa's grandmother is also her best - and only - friend. Every night, Elsa hides from the world in her grandmother's stories about the Land of Wakefulness and the Kingdom of Miamas, where no one has to be "normal". But when Grandma dies and is left to live only in the letters she wrote to those to whom she felt guilty, that's when Elsa's greatest adventure begins...

«It is not often that you get a book in your hands that you do not just read, but which immerses you in a completely different world, – says the co-founder of #bookhead Svitlana Paveletskaya. – This novel by Bachmann in Sweden alone has sold more than 500,000 copies. I think because the book tells about the child inside each of us. It is very rare for a book to be both funny and touching at the same time, when you go from tears to laughter. This is exactly what a tragicomedy should be. It's like Jarmusch's Broken Flowers, only a book. It's when heavy things about forgiveness, acceptance, the inner world, how to let go of people and thoughts are conveyed so easily that it's hard to believe.

«My Grandmother Asks Her to Forgive Her» – a book about life: sad and funny, painful and exciting at the same time, as well as about one of the most important human rights - the right to be different.

Media reviews:

«Fredrik Bachmann has a knack for weaving tales that are both believable and whimsical. Bachmann's smooth narrative fills his characters with charm and wit....

St. Louis Post-Dispatch 

«This is a wonderful story about learning to be different in a world that often doesn't accept our otherness. It's about the love between a grandmother and a granddaughter. It's a story that will make you laugh, make you cry and love the characters that only Fredrik Bachmann could create."

Anna Flynn, Watermark Books