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Anxious people / Fredrik Backman ; translated by Neil Smith.

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"This is a story about a hostage drama. But more than that, it’s a story about idiots. That’s why, from the very outset, I need to say that it is always very easy to declare people idiots, but only if you forget that it is also almost always idiotically difficult to be human. Anxious People is an unreasonably riotous comedy about a hostage drama during an open house that all begins when a failed bank robber locks himself in with six strangers who have come to view the apartment. In captivity we meet Roger and Anna-Lena, a recently retired couple who are on a manic hunt for fixer-uppers because they don’t know how to fix their own marriage. They have the distinction of shopping at every Ikea in Sweden—and those are some of the most romantic moments they ever shared. Then there is Zara, a wealthy director of a bank who has never cared for poor people or their problems (and isn’t shy about saying so). But when tragedy strikes in her life, she becomes addicted to visiting real-estate open houses to see how the middle-classes live – and possibly to find a suitable place to commit suicide. Julia and Danijela are a young lesbian couple with a newborn baby who can’t agree on anything. Their opposite and idiosyncratic home preferences are making them increasingly anxious about their chances of spending a lifetime together. And Estelle, an eighty year-old woman who has lived long enough to be unimpressed by some bank robber waving a gun in her face. Despite the story she tells them all, Estelle hasn’t really come to the apartment to view it for her daughter, and her husband really isn’t outside parking the car. As police surround the premises and television channels are broadcasting live, the pressure of an increasingly tense situation mounts, causing each person to reveal more and more about themselves to each other. Before long, the robber must decide which is the more terrifying prospect: going out to face the police, or staying in the apartment with this group of impossible people. In the end, the hostages are released, but when the police storm the apartment to capture the robber, it is...empty. In a series of interviews afterwards, the witnesses all tell their version of what happened that day, whereupon it becomes clear to the police that one person is lying, and that none of the others are telling the whole truth. This is a story about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and a group of very anxious people who experience the same events in wildly different ways."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982121600
  • ISBN: 1982121602
  • Physical Description: pages cm
  • Edition: Simon & Schuster Canada edition.
  • Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Simon & Schuster Canada, 2020.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Translation of: Folk med ångest.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Issued also in electronic format.
Subject: Bank robberies > Fiction.
Thieves > Fiction.
Hostage negotiations > Fiction.
Witnesses > Fiction.
Small cities > Sweden > Fiction.
Sweden > Fiction.
Bank robberies.
Hostage negotiations.
Small cities.
Thieves.
Witnesses.
Sweden.
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
Fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Humorous fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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