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The scandal / Fredrik Backman ; translated by Neil Smith.

The scandal / Fredrik Backman ; translated by Neil Smith.

Late one evening towards the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barrelled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else's forehead and pulled the trigger. This is the story of how we got there. Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart. Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly shrinking with each passing year. But now the town is on the verge of an astonishing revival. Everyone can feel the excitement. Change is in the air and a bright new future is just around the corner. Until the day it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act. It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up and forgotten, and those who'll risk the future to see justice done. At last, it falls to one young man to find the courage to speak the truth that it seems no one else wants to hear. With the town's future at stake, no one can stand by or stay silent. Everyone is on one side or the other. Which side would you be on?

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Shelf Location BACK
Author Backman, Fredrik, 1981-
Title Bjornstad
The scandal / Fredrik Backman ; translated by Neil Smith.
Publication Details London Michael Joseph, 2017.
Description 418 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes Originally published in Swedish in 2016 as Bjornstad. Published in the USA as Beartown by Atria Books, 2017.
Translated from the Swedish
Late one evening towards the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barrelled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else's forehead and pulled the trigger. This is the story of how we got there. Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart. Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly shrinking with each passing year. But now the town is on the verge of an astonishing revival. Everyone can feel the excitement. Change is in the air and a bright new future is just around the corner. Until the day it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act. It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up and forgotten, and those who'll risk the future to see justice done. At last, it falls to one young man to find the courage to speak the truth that it seems no one else wants to hear. With the town's future at stake, no one can stand by or stay silent. Everyone is on one side or the other. Which side would you be on?
Subject Scandals -- Fiction
Hockey teams -- Fiction
Hockey -- Tournaments -- Fiction
Hockey -- Fiction
Murder -- Fiction
Teenagers -- Fiction
Sports -- Fiction.
Sweden -- Fiction
Added Author Smith, Neil (Neil Andrew)
Alternate Title Beartown.
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