J Allen’s Reviews > A Man Called Ove > Status Update

"But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don't share it there's a good chance that it will drive them apart instead."

"In the house on the other side of Jimmy live Rune and his wife. Ove wouldn't exactly call Rune his enemy... or rather, he would. Everything that went to pot in the Resident's Association began with Rune. He and his wife, Anita, moved into the area on the same day that Ove and Sonja moved in. At that time Rune drove a Volvo, but later he bought a BMW. You just couldn't reason with a person who behaved like that."