My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises - Fredrik Backman A woman settles in a

A woman settles in a remote Polish village

With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory

At the age of eighty-one

Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges' Buenos Aires

My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises - Fredrik Backman A woman settles in aEveryone remembers the smell of their grandmother's house. Everyone remembers the stories their grandmother told them. But does everyone remember their grandmother flirting with policemen? Driving illegally? Breaking into a zoo in the middle of the night? Firing a paintball gun from a balcony in her dressing gown? Seven year old Elsa does. Some might call Elsa's granny 'eccentric', or even 'crazy'. Elsa calls her a superhero. And granny's stories, of