My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises - Fredrik Backman abandoned buildings haunted by suicide

abandoned buildings haunted by suicide and violence

Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges' Buenos Aires

With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory

for every time he sees a woman he feels the overwhelming desire to kill

her comfortable world is shattered

My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises - Fredrik Backman abandoned buildings haunted by suicideEveryone remembers the smell of their grandmother's house. Everyone remembers the stories their grandmother told them. But does everyone remember their grandmother flirting with policemen? Driving illegally? Breaking into a zoo in the middle of the night? Firing a paintball gun from a balcony in her dressing gown? Seven year old Elsa does. Some might call Elsa's granny 'eccentric', or even 'crazy'. Elsa calls her a superhero. And granny's stories, of