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Authors: Fredrik Backman

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FREDRIK BACKMAN
’s previous novels,
A Man Called Ove
and
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
, were both number-one bestsellers in his native Sweden and are being published in more than twenty-five countries. He lives in Stockholm with his wife and two children.

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A Man Called Ove

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright 2014 by Fredrik Backman

Originally published in 2014 in Swedish as
Britt-Marie var här
by Partners in Stories, Stockholm, Sweden

Published in the English language by arrangement with Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.

Translation copyright © 2015 by Henning Koch

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Interior design by Paul Dippolito

Jacket Art and Design by Alan Dingman

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Author Photograph by Henric Lindsten

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Backman, Fredrik, 1981– author.

Title: Britt-Marie was here : a novel / Fredrik Backman.

Other titles: Britt-Marie var här. English

Description: New York: Atria Books, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015047026 (print) | LCCN 2016004098 (ebook)

Classification: LCC PT9877.12.A32 B7613 2016 (print) | LCC PT9877.12.A32

(ebook) | DDC 839.73/8—dc23

LC record available at
http://lccn.loc.gov/2015047026

ISBN 978-1-5011-4253-6

ISBN 978-1-5011-4255-0 (ebook)

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