Beartown - Backman Fredrik

Autor: BACKMAN Fredrik

Editorial: SIMON & SCHUSTER

Lenguaje: Inglés

ISBN13: 9781501160776

Reseña: Now an HBO Limited Series Youll love this engrossing novel. --People Named a Best Book of the Year by LibraryReads BookBrowse and Goodreads From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People a dazzling and profound novel about a small town with a big dream--and the price required to make it come true. By the lake in Beartown is an old ice rink and in that ice rink Kevin Amat Benji and the rest of the towns junior ice hockey team are about to compete in the national semi-finals--and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys. Under that heavy burden the match becomes the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Accusations are made and like ripples on a pond they travel through all of Beartown. This is a story about a town and a game but even more about loyalty commitment and the responsibilities of friendship the people we disappoint even though we love them and the decisions we make every day that come to define us. In this story of a small forest town Fredrik Backman has found the entire world.