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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman6/11/2023 ![]() He gives the first sales assistant an insinuating glance as if to say he'll pay him back for this. The colleague no longer looks quite as happy. Ove drills his police-flashlight finger into the counter. The colleague looks very happy, as people do when they have not been working for a sufficient stretch of time as sales assistants. The assistant gives him a quick nod, then disappears and comes back after a few moments with a colleague. ![]() Ove checks his watch and grudgingly agrees, reminding the assistant that some people have better things to do than stand around all day waiting. "You know what? Let me see if my colleague has finished with his customer, so he can come and give you a demonstration." Then he suddenly brightens, flashing an energetic smile. ![]() The sales assistant looks down at the counter in a way that seems to reveal a fiercely yet barely controlled desire to begin clawing his own face. ![]() "Is that one of those blessed 'eReaders' everyone's talking about?" "A McBook?" Ove says, far from convinced. ![]()
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