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Grandpa and Noah sat on a bench in the square, sharing their obsession with mathematics and numbers. Every day, everything around me is getting blurry. Grandpa knew that his memories were gradually passing away, and he could only hold Noah's hand tightly, hoping to make Noah disappear in the end. Sometimes sitting next to Grandpa is his son Ted. Ted doesn't like math and only likes writing and guitar. Throughout his life, he has been waiting for his father to accompany him, encourage him and recognize him. The universe is vast and life is equally long. While we were together, we also said goodbye. When everything in the world disappears, only those who cherish love can embrace the future and survive.

After the storm, a young man with a big bear tattoo on his arm and a young woman with guitar and shotgun tattoos will return to their long-lost hometown of Bear Town to attend the funeral of a winner. The man's name is Benji. He is the hero of this small town and the traitor who is called a sissy by all the fans. He looks like a teenager who has climbed to the tallest tree and carries the biggest secret on his shoulders. He is the most dangerous man on the ice and the loneliest man on the face of the earth. The tone in which people spoke about coming out seemed to imply that it only had to be done once, but Benji knew that with someone there, it would never be over. You just have to keep coming out and coming out again until you're knocked down. The woman's name is Maya, and it has been two and a half years since she was raped by Kevin, the star of hope in the town. That event started everything, and her story changed two hockey clubs, impacted politics, and shook an entire town and half a forest to its foundations. The rape lasted only a few minutes for Kevin, but it was endless for her. Most people can never pinpoint the exact moment when they stopped being a child, but Maya could. All the hidden and ignored stories will be rediscovered; traps, problems, and malicious jokes will reappear; the standards of justice, the price of friendship, and the choices of life will all come to the fore, and violence, blood, and love will appear one after another, a pistol, a storm, a person rushing to the fire, a game that can never be started; a first love, a second chance, and a last farewell. In a dark forest, young men wearing different colored clothes will engage in a life-or-death fight. The people we love deeply will eventually die.

Every group of people who don't make you feel like you belong is a threat. Maybe, one voice would say, "We're not rejecting them." Another would add, "We just don't want the whole city to become... Like them." Someone would mutter, "Maybe it would be best for him to move, since he doesn't really feel like he belongs here anyway. It would be better for him to go to a big city. It's for his own good. It's not because I reject them. Not at all. But... Well, you know." Maya stayed at home, sitting in front of her computer. She read what the men had said about Benji, and it reminded her of what they had done to her. Everything is just starting from scratch, again, nothing changes.

The set includes: "A Girl's Fear", "Before I Leave", "Beartown", "Beartown 2", "A Man Called Ove", "A Man Called Ove Decided to Die" and "The Long Way Home".

Meet Ove. He is 59 years old, has an eccentric temper, and dislikes both things and things. He wanders around the community with his unbreakable principles, daily routines and a temper that can explode at any time. He is secretly called the "evil neighbor from hell." He patrols around early every morning, moving bicycles that have not parked in the grid, checking whether the garbage is sorted according to regulations, complaining about whose lawn is not mowed, and cursing the stray cat that has lost its fur. Endless. He wants to commit suicide. Until one November morning, when a chatty couple and their two chatty daughters moved next door and accidentally broke his mailbox... I cried while watching the original novel of the same name of the Swedish box office champion movie in Northern Europe, warmly recommended by the Korean healing god Ji Chang Wook.

Seven-year-old Elsa had a weird and crazy grandmother who would hide in snowdrifts to scare the neighbors, write down important things on the wall because the wall would never be lost, sneak out of the hospital in the middle of the night and take Elsa into the zoo, and basically do whatever she wanted. This troublesome grandmother is Elsa's best friend and her superhero. But even superheroes will lose their superpowers one day. Unfortunately, her grandmother died of cancer, leaving Elsa with a difficult task - to send her grandmother's letter of apology to the nine neighbors she had offended. During this trip to deliver letters, Elsa gradually discovered that the stories about her grandmother and neighbors were more exciting than all the fairy tales she had ever heard. Bachman makes us fall in love with this over-the-top grandmother and fall in love with life all over again. The book comes with a mysterious apology letter, which should never be opened until you have finished reading the story. This is a story about love, forgiveness and protection that will be unforgettable long after you close the book.

If you want to understand a town's biggest story, you have to hear its smaller stories first. Bear Town is a small town. It is remote and lonely, with long winters and a lot of snow. Its short stories include how people dream, how they struggle, how they fall in love, the friendship of two girls, the confrontation between two groups, a girl's trauma, and a boy's secret. Sometimes, life is really hard. The world is so complicated, but you don't know how to speak. The residents of Beartown like people who keep their mouths shut, and they've all experienced that critical moment: Who do you want to be? A choice must be made. They know that responsible people are unfree, and they believe that victory heals all, but what they don't understand is that good people can do terrible things because they believe they are just trying to protect the people they love. This is a small town, and this is a whole world. There are many people here, but in the end you only read about yourself.