6/19/2023 0 Comments Backman anxiousThe reader never knows for sure which breadcrumbs to follow and which to set aside for possible future consideration, just in case of having gone astray. Having set all this out in some detail in Chapter One, Chapter Two is very brief and apparently completely unrelated. That’s really all you need to know at this point. No one knew where the bank robber had gone. Then Backman lays out the basic scenario: a 39-year-old would-be bank robber accidentally starts a hostage drama in a flat in their “not particularly large or noteworthy town”, but when the hostages are released and police storm the apartment they find it is empty. All it took was one single really bad idea. It was easy to get to this point, much easier than you might think. A stairwell full of police officers on their way to storm an apartment. As in all his books, he deliberately lays trails to mislead the reader, like breadcrumbs deliberately taking a person what appears to be the wrong way in a maze. Fredrik Backman has a way of handling the blackest of subjects with humour so that at times the reader finds herself laughing out loud and, very soon after, crying.
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