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《一个叫欧维的男人决定去死》无法启程的单人旅行 　　弗里德里克?巴克曼（Fredrik Backman），瑞典作家，1981年出生于赫??辛堡。巴克曼最初因热爱写作，常在博客和报刊上发表文章。2012年他的第一部小说《一个叫欧维的男人决定去死》（A Man Called Ove）出版后，他一举成名，从此专注于小说创作，相继有《外婆的道歉信》（My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry，2013）、《布瑞特-玛丽来过这儿》（Britt-Marie Was Here，2014）、《垮掉》（Beardown，2017）等作品问世，均登上《纽约时报》畅销书榜。巴克曼笔下的故事幽默又充满温情，人物常格格不入但善良有趣，因而广受世界各地读者的喜爱，他的小说已经被翻译成了35种语言。2015年《一个叫欧维的男人决定去死》被改编为电影，获第89届奥斯卡最佳外语片提名。巴克曼如今和妻子及两个孩子生活在斯德哥尔摩，继续从事写作。 　　Excerpts1） 　　Ove twists uncomfortably in the passenger seat. She punches2） the steering wheel several times， mumbles something about how all she wants is to “drink some bloody lemonade，” flops her arms over the top of the steering wheel， buries her face in her sleeves， and starts crying again. 　　The SUV behind them honks3） until it sounds as if the Finland ferry is about to run them down. And then something in Ove snaps4）. He throws the door open， gets out of the car， walks slowly around the SUV， and rips the driver’s door open. 　　“Have you never been a student driver or what？” 　　The driver doesn’t have time to answer. 　　“You stupid little bastard！” Ove roars in the face of the shaven-headed young man with throat tattoos， his spittle5） cascading6） over their seats. 　　The Throat Tattoo doesn’t have time to answer and Ove doesn’t wait for him either. Instead he grabs the young man by his collar and pulls him up so hard that his body tumbles7） clumsily out of the car. He’s a muscular sort， easily weighing in at two hundred pounds， but Ove holds his collar in an immovable steel grip. Evidently， Throat Tattoo is so surprised by the strength in the old man’s grip that it doesn’t occur to him to put up any resistance. Fury burns in Ove’s eyes as he presses the probably thirty-five-years-younger man so hard against the side of the SUV that the bodywork8） creaks. He places the tip of his index finger in the middle of the shaved head and positions his eyes so close to Throat Tattoo’s face that they feel each other’s breath. 　　“If you s