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Beartown

Written by: Fredrik Backman
Narrated by: John Sackville
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Beartown by Fredik Backman, read by John Sackville.

Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest.

For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart.

Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly shrinking with each passing year. But now the town is on the verge of an astonishing revival. A bright new future is just around the corner.

Until the day it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act.

It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up and forgotten, and those who'll risk the future to see justice done. At last, it falls to one young man to find the courage to speak the truth that it seems no one else wants to hear.

With the town's future at stake, no one can stand by or stay silent. Everyone is on one side or the other.

Which side would you be on?

Previously published as The Scandal.

©2017 Fredrik Backman (P)2017 Penguin Audio
Crime Thrillers Literary Fiction Psychological Small Town & Rural Sports Suspense

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"As popular Swedish exports go, Backman is up there with ABBA and Stieg Larsson." (The New York Times Book Review)

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Beautiful!!!

Fredrik Backman does it again. One of the best books I have ever read. This is right up there with Aa Man Called Ove.

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Gripping. Can't stop it even if live in tropicals

What a book. Bear town will live with me for rest of my life. I want to live in Scandanavia now

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outstanding every way

it's a great book, wonderfully narrated. every word a punch. the narrator brings out the nuances superbly

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Great story telling, it’s like living with the characters

Great story, great narration Frederick manages to uncomplicate lives which have become so complicated now

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beautiful

love the language and how simple and how deep the thoughts are. narration is just perfect

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Really moving story

You’ll have to pay attention to initial few chapters where the writer is setting the context, it’s a smooth flowing story from there. Filled with twists and turns

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Brilliant but long

It's a gripping story but the details on ice hockey seem repetitive and prolong the book.

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Bear Town

beautiful and contemporary; and yet from a distant place. fantastic story with simple and elemental characters. i enjoyed it thoroughly.

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Super narration, story is good but dark

Gave me goosebumps at various places. its a dark story - very very well written.

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A beautiful story which is so well narrated.

Eager to listen to many more audiobooks by this author. I had a beautiful experience while listening. Thanks to the narrator.

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