My Friends (Canadian First Printing - Signed)

Backman, Fredrik

ISBN 10: 1982121653 / ISBN 13: 9781982121655

Published by Simon & Schuster Canada, Toronto, ON, 2025

About this Item

A signed copy of the Canadian fist edition and first printing. Signed on the publishers signature page in red ink by author Fredrik Backman. Purchased new and unread.

Seller Inventory # 004236

Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Friends (Canadian First Printing - Signed)
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Canada, Toronto, ON
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1982121653
• ISBN 13: 9781982121655
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, who “captures the messy essence of being human” (The Washington Post), returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger’s life twenty-five years later.

Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an artist herself, knows otherwise and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures.

Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their difficult home lives by spending their days laughing and telling stories out on a pier. There’s Joar, who never backs down from a fight; quiet and bookish Ted who is mourning his father; Ali, the daughter of a man who never stays in one place for long; and finally, there’s the artist, a boy who hoards sleeping pills and shuns attention, but who possesses an extraordinary gift that might be his ticket to a better life. These four lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream.

Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be put into eighteen-year-old Louisa’s care. As she struggles to decide what to do with this bequest, she embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn the story of how the painting came to be. The closer she gets to the painting’s birthplace, the more she feels compelled to unleash her own artistic spirit, but happy endings don’t always take the form we expect in this fresh testament to the transformative power of friendship and art.

About the Author

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, Anxious People, The Winners, My Friends, as well as two novellas and one work of nonfiction. His books are published in more than forty countries. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children. Connect with him on Facebook and X @BackmanLand and on Instagram @Backmansk.