内容简介

Viewing an apartment normally doesn’t turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage. As the pressure mounts, the eight strangers slowly begin opening up to one another and reveal long-hidden truths.

First is Zara, a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else until tragedy changed her life. Now, she’s obsessed with visiting open houses to see how ordinary people live—and, perhaps, to set an old wrong to right. Then there’s Roger and Anna-Lena, an Ikea-addicted retired couple who are on a never-ending hunt for fixer-uppers to hide the fact that they don’t know how to fix their own failing marriage. Julia and Ro are a young lesbian couple and soon-to-be parents who are nervous about their chances for a successful life together since they can’t agree on anything. And there’s Estelle, an eighty-year-old woman who has lived long enough to be unimpressed by a masked bank robber waving a gun in her face. And despite the story she tells them all, Estelle hasn’t really come to the apartment to view it for her daughter, and her husband really isn’t outside parking the car.

As police surround the premises and television channels broadcast the hostage situation live, the tension mounts and even deeper secrets are slowly revealed. Before long, the robber must decide which is the more terrifying prospect: going out to face the police, or staying in the apartment with this group of impossible people.

作者简介

Fredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, Beartown, Us Against You, and two novellas, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer and The Deal of a Lifetime, as well as one work of nonfiction, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World. His books are publishe...

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精彩摘录

如果人们真的像他们在网上表现的那么开心，就不会把那么多该死的时间花在互联网上了，因为没有谁会在真正度过愉快的一天时，还能想着拿出半天的时间自拍。只要拥有足够的肥料，任何人都可以给生活营造虚假的光鲜氛围。

——引自第48页

你知道做父母最惨的地方是什么吗？就是别人总是根据你做的最糟糕的事情来评判你，哪怕你做过一百万件正确的事，但只要有一件事情做错了，那你永远都是不合格的父母。他们会觉得，你永远是那种‘孩子被公园里的秋千碰到脑袋的时候，你却在看手机’的人，其实我们每次都会不错眼珠地盯着孩子，唯独那一次低头读了条短信，就成了别人眼中的坏父母，以前做过的好事全都不算数。没人会一直跟心理医生唠叨他们小时候被秋千撞到头的经历，做父母的却永远要被自己的失误钉在耻辱柱上。

——引自第19页