Fredrik Backman

In a hilarious short story from New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, the absurdities of modern life cause one man’s solitary world to spin suddenly, and comically, out of control.

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone?

Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

Told in Fredrik Backman’s singular witty style with sharply drawn characters and relatable antics, The Answer Is No is a laugh-out-loud portrait of a man struggling to keep to himself in a world that won’t leave him alone.

The Answer Is No

Ole and Sonja you will always be loved BY ME

Stas

But what about love then, Lucas? Falling head over heels? That feeling that before love your world was black and white, but this person is all of your color?

I usually keep my peanuts next to a jar of peanut butter, so they understand what I'm capable of!

But then again, Lucas has never loved a cat, so what does he really know about life?

Esse livro é genuinamente muito engraçado o tempo todo e aí ele me vem com essa facada no coração do nada

Pedro Rodarte

Sometimes I think that children should be teenagers first, and become small afterwards, because it’s unbearable for parents to get used to the fact that that they don’t jump anymore.”

Don’t look on the internet for someone who is exactly like you. Look for someone who isn’t. Love is not to never fight. Love is always making up.

Srijita Sarkar 

Lucas is happy. This is a very provoking thing to the world. Because people aren't supposed to be happy, they're only supposed to want to be happy, because how otherwise are you supposed to be able to sell things to them? More than anything people are supposed to pretend to be happy on the internet so that other people are reminded of how unhappy they themselves are by comparison. Humanity has a system. But Lucas? He's just happy. It wasn't even particularly difficult. All he did was to remove the one thing that makes almost all people unhappy: other people.

being someone's neighbor can be utterly challenging,

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