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The Winners: A Novel Paperback – Sept. 27 2022
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Over the course of two weeks, everything in Beartown will change.
Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake.
Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there’s something about this place that prevents it. The destruction caused by a ferocious late-summer storm reignites the old rivalry between Beartown and the neighboring town of Hed, a rivalry which has always been fought through their ice hockey teams.
Maya’s parents, Peter and Kira, are caught up in an investigation of the hockey club’s murky finances, and Amat—once the star of the Beartown team—has lost his way after an injury and a failed attempt to get drafted into the NHL. Simmering tensions between the two towns turn into acts of intimidation and then violence. All the while, a fourteen-year-old boy grows increasingly alienated from this hockey-obsessed community and is determined to take revenge on the people he holds responsible for his beloved sister’s death. He has a pistol and a plan that will leave Beartown with a loss that is almost more that it can stand.
As it beautifully captures all the complexities of daily life and explores questions of friendship, loyalty, loss, and identity, this emotion-packed novel asks us to reconsider what it means to win, what it means to lose, and what it means to forgive.
- Print length688 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication dateSept. 27 2022
- Dimensions15.24 x 4.32 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-101501163175
- ISBN-13978-1501163173
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— Booklist (Starred Review)
“Beartown has been the backdrop to some of the darkest dramas of the human heart, but there are still more secrets, rivalries, and resentments to contend with in this final installment.”
— Bookpage
“An often dark, moving story. . . . The book, which works as a standalone read, begins with a devastating storm that leaves a path of destruction in its wake . . . It’s a world full of both conflict and kindness, where, as the narrator notes, ‘sport is about much more than sport.’”
— AARP.com
“Everything Backman’s pen touches oozes with insight and heart. The Winners is sure to be another winner.”
— Amazon Book Review
“The novel, about how the fates of villagers from two rival hockey-loving Swedish towns hang in the balance, is both sprawling and intimate, and told in Backman’s richly atmospheric prose.”
— Zoomer
“Backman writes with wit and sincerity and is a talented web-spinner.”
— Kirkus
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- Publisher : Simon & Schuster; Canadian edition (Sept. 27 2022)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 688 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1501163175
- ISBN-13 : 978-1501163173
- Item weight : 728 g
- Dimensions : 15.24 x 4.32 x 22.86 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #985 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #32 in Humorous
- #123 in Literary Fiction (Books)
- #542 in Genre Fiction (Books)
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About the author

Fredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, Beartown, Us Against You, and two novellas, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer and The Deal of a Lifetime, as well as one work of nonfiction, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World. His books are published in more than forty countries. His next novel, Anxious People, will be published in September 2020. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children. Connect with him on Facebook and Twitter @BackmanLand or on Instagram @Backmansk.
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Set in Beartown, Sweden on an ice hockey ring, two rival teams, throw in a local gang and competitive parents, it has all the plots for a great story, beautifully told. Check it out!
