!!!!!!!!NEW BEARTOWN BOOK SUMMARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I google translated the summary of the third Beartown book, Vinnarna (The Winners) and I can’t even holy shit oh my god stop i am sooooo excited dude. i cannot. asdfgasdff
original swedish summary can be found here and without further ado, may i present the google translate english summary of The Winners:
This is a little story about big questions: What is a family? What is a hockey club? What is a society? And what are we willing to sacrifice to protect them? It has been two years since everything that no one wants to think about happened, everyone has tried to move on but something with this part of the forest never really allows us to do it. We are a city with sadness in our hearts and violence in the air, we love fairy tales with happy endings, but deep down we probably always knew that this was not the case. It starts with a storm, this time, and ends with a fire. Someone who has been away for a long time is on his way home. Someone was buried. Someone falls in love, someone dreams of the NHL and someone dreams of revenge. Someone is sleeping back to back with their best friend, someone is trying to fix their marriage and someone is trying to save their children. Someone hates, someone fights, someone takes a firearm and walks towards an ice rink. Everything we fought for will not survive, all we love will not grow old. So what is a family? A hockey club? A community? They are the sum of our choices. What are we willing to sacrifice to protect them? All. Just everything.
This is the last part of Fredrik Backman's beloved trilogy about Björnstad. The first two books, "Björnstad" and "Vi mot er", reached the New York Times bestseller list and became a television series on HBO. The "winners" are a striking, violent and deeply loving ending to the history of the hockey city and its people.