The two forest communities lie so close to each other and so far from everywhere else that it felt like emigrating. She left Björnstad and traveled through Hed on her way south. This story doesn’t start today, it’s been going on for two years, because that was when Maya Andersson moved away from here. The problem with both hockey and life is that simple moments are rare. Perhaps that ought to apply to stories like this as well, because it shouldn’t take long to tell, it starts right here and ends in less than two weeks, and how much can happen in two hockey towns during that time? Not much, obviously. Never make things more complicated than they need to be, don’t think too much, and ideally not at all. “Keep it simple.” That’s a common piece of advice in hockey, as it is in They don’t get long stories, and they don’t die peace- fully in old people’s homes with their heads resting on soft pillows.īoys like Benji die young. Dear God, how we hope.īut the truth is that stories about boys like Benji hardly ever end with them as old men.
For their sakes we dream of eternal life, we wish for superpowers and try to build time machines. Naive dreams are love’s last line of defense, so somehow we always convince ourselves that no terrible tragedies will ever afflict those we love, and that our people will succeed in escaping fate. Him well enough to call him Benji, probably knew deep down that he was never the sort of person who would get a happy ending. (Courtesy of Linnéa Jonasson Bernholm & Appendix fotografi) Book excerpt: 'The Winners'Įveryone who knew Benjamin Ovich, particularly those of us who knew Producer Emiko Tamagawa has this introduction to the author and the books. In his best-selling book " The Winners," Swedish author Fredrik Backman concludes his " Beartown Trilogy," which centers around a hockey-loving town in Sweden. The cover of "The Winners" by Fredrik Backman.
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