that an age has been reached when there is more to look back on than ahead.
And when time no longer lies ahead of one, other things have to be lived for.
Memories, perhaps. Afternoons in the sun with someone’s hand clutched in one’s own.
The fragrance of flowerbeds in fresh bloom. Sundays in a café. Grandchildren, perhaps.
One finds a way of living for the sake of someone else’s future.
And it wasn’t as if Ove also died when Sonja left him. He just stopped living.
Grief is a strange thing. When the hospital staff refused to let Parvaneh accompany Ove’s stretcher into the operating room,
it took the combined efforts of Patrick, Jimmy, Anders, Adrian, Mirsad, and four nurses to hold her back, and her flying fists.
When a doctor told her to consider the fact that she was pregnant and cautioned her to sit down and “take it easy,”
Parvaneh overturned one of the wooden benches in the waiting room so that it landed on his foot.
And when another doctor came out of a door with a clinically neutral expression
and a curt way of expressing himself about “preparing yourselves for the worst,”
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