The Winners (Russian Edition)

by Fredrik Backman, Ksenia Kovalenko (Translator), Maria Lyudkovskaya (Translator)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Revenge, family, redemption and forgiveness; Fredrik Backman yet again delivers on an emotionally dense narrative ripe with rich language and lovable humor. This is the final in the series, so be sure to stock up on The Winners and Us Against You first.

«Posle buri» – zaklyuchitel'naya chast' trilogii o zhitelyakh dvukh sopernichayushchikh khokkeynykh gorodov, kotoroy predshestvuyut knigi «Medvezhiy ugol» i «My protiv vas». Proshlo dva goda posle sobytiy, o kotorykh vse stremyatsya zabyt', chtoby dvigat'sya dal'she. Maya Anderson i Ben'i Ovich vozvrashchayutsya domoy i vossoyedinyayutsya s blizkimi druz'yami. Oni chuvstvuyut v B'ornstade atmosferu optimizma i tseleustremlennosti, voploshcheniyem kotoroy stal postroyennyy na beregu ozera vpechatlyayushchiy ledovyy dvorets. No problemy, vyzvannyye posledstviyami sil'neyshey buri, vnov' razzhigayut staroye sopernichestvo mezhdu B'ornstadom i sosednim Khedom, sopernichestvo, kotoroye nachinayetsya na ledovoy ploshchadke, no nikogda yeyu ne ogranichivayetsya. Narastayushchaya napryazhennost' perekhodit vo vzaimnoye zapugivaniye, a zatem i v nasiliye… Vseobshchaya khokkeynaya oderzhimost' vse bol'she razdrazhayet chetyrnadtsatiletnego Matteo. Krome togo, te, kogo on schitayet vinovnymi v smerti sestry, – khokkeisty. Matteo polon reshimosti otomstit'. U nego yest' pistolet. I plan deystviy, osushchestvleniye kotorogo privedet k tragedii. Eta pronzitel'naya istoriya predlagayet nam peresmotret' svoi vzglyady na to, chto znachit pobedit' i chto znachit proigrat', chto znachit teryat' i chto znachit proshchat'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9785001315858
Publisher:	Sindbad
Publication date:	06/22/2024
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	671
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years
Language:	Russian

About the Author

Фредрик Бакман — автор популярных во всем мире романов "Вторая жизнь Уве", "Бабушка велела кланяться и передать, что просит прощения", "Здесь была Бритт-Мари", "Медвежий угол" и "Мы против вас". Его книги изданы общим тиражом более пятнадцати миллионов экземпляров в сорока трех странах. Фредрик живет в Стокгольме с женой и двумя детьми.

Editorial Reviews

Backman leaves no emotion unturned, sweeping up the reader in riveting family dramas that jump the boundaries of hockey-town rivalries. Another winner.” —Library Journal (starred review)

“Fredrik Backman is known for his engrossing page-turners, and his latest novel follows suit...A story of revenge, loss, and forgiveness.” –Woman’s World

"Beartown has been the backdrop to some of the darkest dramas of the human heart, but there are still more secrets, rivalries and resentments to contend with in this final installment." —Bookpage

"[A] dramatic and highly satisfying novel, building on themes introduced in the first two books and brilliantly drawing the reader deeply into the story. The translation is nimble and idiomatic, perfectly conveying Backman’s love of language and his wonderful sense of humor. If this really is the last Beartown novel, it’s a hell of a conclusion to an outstanding series" —Booklist, starred review

“Everything Backman’s pen touches oozes with insight and heart. The Winners is sure to be another winner.” —Amazon Book Review

From the Publisher

2022-07-08
Life continues haltingly for the inhabitants of Beartown and its rival borough, Hed.

As in the two earlier books in this series (Beartown, 2017; Us Against You, 2018), things are never settled between these two hockey-obsessed towns in the forests of Sweden. Only one can seemingly do well at a time—resourcewise or hockeywise; the two are interchangeable—and their residents share a mutual, pathological hatred. Beloved characters return, new ones are introduced, tragedy is promised. Backman repeatedly tells the reader about his characters’ overwhelming love for each other, but their ability to actually care for one another comes and goes with the demands of the unwieldy plot. He wants to assure readers that this makes his characters complex, but it really renders them pawns. To stoke the conflict between the towns, he includes not only the pregnancy-ending factory accident of a nameless woman (ushering in a suspiciously out-of-place anti-abortion sentiment), but also the murder of a beloved dog. These machinations are not alone in being soppy and unearned. The book is almost 700 pages long and covers only a two-week span. Backman writes with wit and sincerity and is a talented web-spinner, but with a tale this long, the lack of nuance becomes grating. There’s also a brief “not all men” message that, given the toxic nature of the narrative, is hard to ignore.

A moralistic noir masquerading as a heart-warmer.

Kirkus Reviews