Anxious People

Have you missed the signature "Backman prose", unusual, elegant, and touching? Catch "Anxious People" - a reminder that each of us carries our own bag of pain on our shoulders that we drag everywhere and don’t know where to put it.
A brave eighty-year-old woman, an IKEA-dependent married couple, a pregnant woman, a multimillionaire wishing to settle scores with life… these and a few more people became hostages of an unfortunate robber. He wanted easy money and to rob a bank, but luck was never on his side. And now he is forced to hide from the police in the neighboring apartment. Eight hostages were not part of his plans at all. And even less so their most intimate stories, which they begin to share.
"Anxious People" is a whole gallery of vulnerable characters, the subtly observed human nature by Backman, woven from flaws and imperfections and that’s why it is alive.