My grandmother sends her regards and apologises
By: Fredrik Backman ; translated from the Swedish by Henning Koch
Contributors: Koch, Henning, 1962- translator
Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781444775839; 9781444775846
Subjects: Individuality; Death; Grandparent and child; Girls; Grandmothers; Fiction; Fairy tales; Life change events
Other titles: My grandmother sends her regards & apologises
Work titles: Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt
Description: 'Granny has been telling fairy tales for as long as Elsa can remember. In the beginning they were only to make Elsa go to sleep, and to get her to practise granny's secret language, and a little because granny is just about as nutty as a granny should be. But lately the stories have another dimension as well. Something Elsa can't quite put her finger on ... ' Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy. Standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus-crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa runs to her grandmother's stories, to the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas. There, everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. So when Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has hurt, it marks the beginning of Elsa's greatest adventure.
Notes: Translation of: Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt.

Translated from the Swedish.