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 recycli...
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.
作者简介
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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...
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 published in more than forty countries. His next novel, Anxious People, will be published in September 2020. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children. Connect with him on Facebook and Twitter @BackmanLand or on Instagram @Backmansk
Therefore, to avoid your neighbors, you have to make yourself uninteresting, but not too uninteresting, because that makes you interesting. You have to position yourself somewhere right between “What a great guy!” and “He seems . . . weird.” That’s your sweet spot, because everyone wants a neighbor who minds his own business, but if you mind your own business too much the neighbors may be reminded that this is exactly what everyone always says about serial killers: “Him? I remember him as a bit of a loner. Kept to himself.” (查看原文)
Being smart is the worst thing one can be in modern society. All it ever means is more work. 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 ...
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1 有用 小可麦麦 2025-01-20 12:32:40 中国台湾
smart, absurd, hilarious and deep as always
0 有用 Planet 9 2025-01-23 19:03:34 上海
啊 Lucas is angel
0 有用 ClearMomo🌲🍀 2025-02-01 07:39:38 美国
四分之一弃。开头感觉还挺搞笑的，然而开始说和neighbor的互动就看不下去了。
0 有用 酸奶雪糕 2025-02-01 14:52:38 加拿大
作者总是在寥寥几语间ko一个离谱现象背后的心态哈哈哈 有意思
0 有用 不落城 2025-03-26 00:05:20 四川
可爱温暖的短篇故事，幽默有趣的写作风格，对现代互联网风气以及社会生活有着很深刻的洞察与见解。喜欢结局紫裙姑娘又拥有了一只小黑猫，绿衣姑娘又重新拥抱了自己的孩子，以及Lucas又过上了自己平静自在的快乐生活。缓解忧郁焦虑的最佳处方不是药片和心理治疗，或许我们仅仅只是需要一个Break，丢掉所有responsibility & commiment，去发现去体验去感受自己喜欢的事物和不喜欢的事物。