![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For the next week, the lives of firefighters, midwives, politicians, newspaper editors, businessmen, lawyers, Middle Eastern immigrants and hockey players collide in ways that will leave each character forever altered.Īt the novel’s core are Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two Beartown teenagers who independently fled their hometown: Maya escaped to the big city for college, while Benji “took trains and boats and hitchhiked for lifts in trucks until the towns along the way no longer had hockey teams.” They return after the storm to mourn the death of a beloved member of the Beartown community. The squall uproots trees, closes roads and destroys buildings, including Hed’s hockey rink, resulting in chaos and deaths in both towns. ![]() The novel begins with a once-in-a-generation storm in the deep forests of the far reaches of northern Sweden, where the rival towns Beartown and Hed are pitted against each other - socially, economically and on the ice. And in “The Winners,” the third installment in the hockey-centric Beartown trilogy, Fredrik Backman takes competition, friendship, politics and town rivalry to appropriately biblical proportions. Parents of youth hockey players sometimes joke that, thanks to the sport’s intense early-morning weekend schedule, we belong to the International Church of Hockey. ![]()
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