![]() Ove draws on the memory of Sonja to encourage him to do the right thing-since he fears that she'll be upset with him if he shows up in the afterlife having left something done incorrectly on earth. After she dies of cancer, Ove visits her grave weekly and leaves pink flowers on her headstone. Ove, retired and lonely after the death of his wife, is. A Man Called Ove, takes you to the Swedish town and makes you laugh and cry and sometimes both. Sonja worked to make life as bright and lively as possible, though Ove was constantly bewildered by her refusal to adhere to his carefully laid travel plans or routines and insisted she didn't understand his desire to live according to principles. A Man Called Ove is a 2012 novel by Fredrik Backman about Ove, a bitter, bereaved, aging Swedish man who learns to embrace life again. Rather than spend the rest of her life grieving, Sonja threw herself into teaching troubled students to read Shakespeare. There, they were involved in a bus accident that paralyzed Sonja from the waist down and caused her to miscarry her pregnancy. After the death of his wife, he feels he has nothing to live fo. Right after she and Ove got married and moved into their row house, they went to Spain on a bus tour. Ove is a cantankerous, inflexible Swede who believes in hard work and following rules. ![]() She grew up with her father and a massive cat, Ernest, and met Ove when she moved to town to study to be a teacher. ![]() ![]() She also loved talking, and Ove loved listening to her talk. She was very beautiful and loved color, chaos, and the humanities. Sonja is Ove's late wife, who dies six months before the start of the novel. ![]()
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