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The Winners
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
- Length: 21 hrs and 22 mins
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Summary
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO STAND TOGETHER?
‘It’s often said that winners write history, but there are no winners here’
This is a small story about big questions.
It's a story about family, community, life.
It starts with a storm - and a death.
But how does it end?
Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there’s something about this place that prevents it. The residents continue to grapple with life’s big questions: What is a family? What is a community? And what, if anything, are we willing to sacrifice in order to protect them?
As the locals of Beartown struggle to overcome the past, great change is on the horizon. Someone is coming home after a long time away. Someone will be laid to rest. Someone will fall in love, someone will try to fix their marriage, and someone will do anything to save their children. Someone will submit to hate, someone will fight, and someone will grab a gun and walk towards the ice rink.
So what are the residents of Beartown willing to sacrifice for their home?
Everything.
Critic reviews
'I utterly believed in the residents of Beartown, and felt ripped apart by the events in the book' JOJO MOYES
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-01-23
wonderful trilogy
I absolutely loved this whole trilogy. it ranks in my top three novels of all time. I know it's 3 books but I am reviewing it as a whole story. I have been completely lost (in a good way) in Beartown for the past few weeks and I really, really don't want to say goodbye.
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- David Grillo
- 03-12-22
simply brilliant
would listen to it again. a great writer and a very good translation. Beckman is unique
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- Johanna
- 18-06-23
I nearly cried when I finished this trilogy
I will miss Beartown and all of its inhabitants so much. The only thing that let this book down was the narration (although it was better than the narration of books one and two. At least this lady got the Swedish pronunciation right)
Fredrik B has become my favourite author. I devoured these books in a fortnight - which is fast for me. There were many sad moments, as well as so many heartwarming ones. I can’t wait to try and watch it on TV someday soon.
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- Tmgreed
- 16-12-22
A must read
I found the first half quite slow and only because the first book was beyond brilliant did I continue with it.
You must keep reading it. What a phenomenal ending. What a trilogy. Only one word for it. Awesome.
Only slight complaint - they changed the narrator. She was fine but it was weird going straight from a male to a female narrator after the first two books.
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- Nieshka
- 21-04-23
Loved it, but annoying at tumes
Loved the Beartown books. This one is the weakest of them all, but still good, as it finishes the story. But there is an awful lot of repetition. Again and again. It's unlikely someone who had not read the two previous ones picks up the third one, so it could do with less summaries of them. And for God's sake stop talking about the wolf hunts! We get it, the author feels very strongly about protecting the hunters, and might have hinted only a few times how much he does not like renewable energy sources. Get a grip, it's not Dark Ages anymore. But all and all well worth a read/listen.
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- Mrs G M West
- 07-11-22
Fantastic and compelling conclusion to the trilogy
I listened to all the books in this trilogy back to back and absolutely loved them all. Frederik Blackman is a superb author with a gift for drawing out our understanding of what should be the most unlikeable characters. Unfortunately this last book was slightly spoilt by the change of actor reading it. Characters that had been so expertly realised by the first actor have been completely changed by drawling American accents that conjure up images of spoilt Californian teenagers rather than country kids from a forest! For me it showed a really shallow understanding of the book and it’s setting. Shame, it would have been so much better to stick with the original actor.
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- T. Andersson
- 22-12-22
New Narrator
Why change the narrator for book 3? Quite annoying, she also pronounces names and places differently from the 1st two books. Other than that the book was good.
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- Kaz
- 11-01-23
Such a beautiful book
Heart felt, sickening, sad, happy but just beautifully written. This book make you experience every emotion.
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- Gabriela Vitkova
- 17-03-24
I’m speechless
I love the whole Beartown trilogy but this one was the best of them.
“We hoped. Oh, how we hoped…” 💚
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- FJE BALL
- 20-05-23
Great end to an amazing trilogy!
Thoroughly enjoyed getting to know, love, despise and worry about these intriguing characters. Loving Fredrick Backman’s work.
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