Book description
'It's often said that winners write history, but there are no winners here'
This is a small story about big questions.
It's a story about family, community, life.
It starts with a storm - and a death.
But how does it end?
Two years have passed since the events that…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Winners as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I’m a sucker for Fredrik Backman’s work, and this was a long-awaited and satisfying conclusion to the Beartown trilogy.
Yes, it was over 600 pages. Yes, the plot was complex and meandering. But each book in this series got better and more endearing, and I couldn’t put it down.
Backman knows how to inhabit a story, and the residents of Beartown will forever inhabit my heart.
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