Today, I’d love to share a book named A Man Called Ove. In Chinese translation, the name is related to suicide, which makes the book sound really tragic and miserable. But as an old saying goes, don’t judge a book by its cover.
今天小编想跟大家分享自己最近在阅读的一本书——《一个叫欧维的男人决定去死》。这书名一听就满满的负能量啊，其实小编一开始看着这名字内心也是很拒绝的，但可别“以貌取书”哦。
A Man Called Ove was Fredrik Backman’s debut, which surprisingly brought him a huge amount of fame and money. The book has been translated into 25 different languages and become a bestseller around the world. In 2015, it was adapted into a movie which was nominated for the 89th Oscar Best Foreign Language Film Award.
《一个叫欧维的男人决定去死》是弗雷德里克•巴克曼的处女作，没想到却令他一举成名。这部小说被翻译成25种语言，成为国际畅销书。2015年被改编成电影，获提名第89届奥斯卡最佳外语片奖。
In the novel, Ove is a pain in the neck for everyone, who is full of such prejudice that he considers those who don’t drive the same car as his are all dumb asses. In addition, he’s a dye-in-the-wood miser. However, such a stubborn and tough man with straight man cancer, offers all his softness to his beloved wife--Sonia. Even after she died of cancer, he tried to commit suicide six times. Fortunately, because of his neighbour Paweena, he didn’t succeed once. What’s more, Paweena even changed the rest of Ove’s miserable life--he was no longer a lonely old man abandoned by this world, as well as wanting to abandon the world.
欧维是个让人避之不及，想起就头疼的“糟老头”，他对这个世界充满了偏见，认为所有和他开不同牌子车的人都是蠢蛋，并且抠门至极。但这样一个顽固又强硬的“直男癌”，却将他一生的温柔都给了自己的妻子索尼娅，甚至在她因癌症去世后，也曾六度企图自杀。幸亏邻居帕维娜的出现，总是破坏欧维的自杀大计，甚至改变了他此后的生活——他不再是被这个世界抛弃，也想抛弃这个世界的孤独老头了。
Basically, it is totally a tragedy. However, Backman put a lot of laugh-out-loud details in the story. Such a book with tears and laugh, reality and memories, holds the magic that makes readers burst into both laughter and tears. Even after finishing reading, the waves in the heart still surge for a long time.
从主线来看，这个故事是彻头彻尾的悲剧，但实际上，作者在细节中穿插着许许多多令人捧腹大笑的情节。这样一部悲喜交加，现实与回忆交织的小说，有着令读者上一秒还爆笑，却在下一秒泪流满面的魔力，甚至于读完之后，心中的澎湃浪涛还是久久难以平息。
What I value most in this book is that, it gives readers a chance to take a glimpse of the inside world of those ordinary people with annoying traits. Backman’s novels often focus on those nuisances whose nice traits are often ignored. In his novels, the characters’ personalities are enriched as the stories develop, which makes us realize that people’s personalities are so complicated that we cannot judge a person merely by several little things. Only after we make acquaintance with him and get to know his past can we realize that a tough man could hold such softness, that a stubborn man could be so kind.
这本书对读者的意义在于，我们得到了一个了解那些生活中的平凡人，甚至是讨厌鬼的内心世界。作者巴克曼的故事总是聚焦于平凡中又带着惹人厌特质的小人物，并通过情节，不紧不慢地使人物的性格丰富饱满。让我们明白，一个人的性格甚至比人体结构还复杂，是不能通过那么一两件小事就判定的。只有与他相处，慢慢了解了他的过去，渐渐了解了他的生活之后，才能知道一个顽固的糟老头原来有着这样的深情，一个嘴硬的直男癌其实心地善良至极。
Maybe you are in the deep valley of your lifetime, or maybe you are busy and so restless. In that case, I think you can read this book concerning love and life and get to know an adorable but annoying old man called Ove.
也许你在人生的低谷，也许你在忙碌中无所适从。那么不妨读一本关于爱，关于生活的温情小说，认识一个叫欧维的让人既爱又气的“钢铁直男”。
作者：刘媛媛
日期：2019.5.1
