Úzkosti a jejich lidé – Backman Fredrik (2021)

The author of the bestseller A Man Called Ove returns with his funniest book yet. Anxieties and Their People is a thoroughly crazy comedy about a group of hostages taken the day before New Year's Eve during an apartment inspection. Behind locked doors, there is an individual in a robber's mask who fled after a failed bank heist, a couple of elderly people addicted to shopping at Ikea, a sarcastic millionaire suffering from depression, a sad old lady who enjoys sipping wine, two lesbians awaiting the birth of their baby any day now, and an annoying guy with a rabbit head. In the end, the robber gives up and releases everyone, but when the police then burst in, the apartment is... empty. In a subsequent series of confused interrogations, everyone recounts their version of events, and a detective mystery arises for the reader: How did the individual in the robber's mask manage to escape? Why did they demand fireworks instead of a ransom? What role does the bridge visible from the balcony of the apartment for sale play in the story? And above all — what is happening to everyone today?