History Literature / BerattelseOmHerrRoos

Valdemar Roos, almost 60 years old, seems like a boring person. He is unhappily married to Alice and works for 20 years for the same company and awaits nothing more eagerly than a change in his boring life. One day, he wins almost 2 million SEK playing pools, but instead of telling somebody about it, he quits his hated job and buys "Lograna", a cabin deep in the woods, and starts a second life, pretending to his family that he goes to his job every morning. He spends his days simply enjoying life and taking walks. Meanwhile, a young woman called Anna runs away from a drug withdrawal home after being mistreated, and runs into Valdemar and his cabin while looking for a shelter. At first, Anna is timid and avoids meeting Valdemar personally, but after some time the two get to know each other better and become friends. Soon after though, Anna's brutal ex-boyfriend Steffo manages to track Anna and attacks her, whereby Steffo gets killed by either Anna or Valdemar. From now on, Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti has to investigate this crime.

-->'''Steffo:''' You're mine. Never forget that you are Steffo's now. * GamblersFallacy[=/=]MillionToOneChance: Valdemar has been playing pools for ''years'' with the ''same'' numbers before finally winning 1 954 120kr.
* InterruptedSuicide[=/=]FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Valdemar at the end. Though it is left open at the end of this book and is only revealed some books later when Barbarotti runs into Anna and she tells him that Valdemar actually is alive.]]

* BastardBoyfriend: Steffo was this to Anna.
-->'''Steffo:''' You're mine. Never forget that you are Steffo's now.

* GamblersFallacy[=/=]MillionToOneChance: Valdemar has been playing pools for ''years'' with the ''same'' numbers before finally winning 1 954 120kr.

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Valdemar Roos, almost 60 years old, seems like a boring person. He is unhappily married to Alice and works for 20 years for the same company and awaits nothing more eagerly than a change in his boring life. One day, he wins almost 2 million Swedish kronor playing pools, but instead of telling somebody about it, he quits his hated job and buys "Lograna", a cabin deep in the woods, and starts a second life, pretending to his family that he goes to his job every morning. He spends his days simply enjoying life and taking walks. Meanwhile, a young woman called Anna runs away from a drug withdrawal home after being mistreated, and runs into Valdemar and his cabin while looking for a shelter. At first, Anna is timid and avoids meeting Valdemar personally, but after some time the two get to know each other better and become friends. Soon after though, Anna's brutal ex-boyfriend Steffo manages to track Anna and attacks her, whereby Steffo gets killed by either Anna or Valdemar. From now on, Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti has to investigate this crime.

* GamblersFallacy[=/=]MillionToOneChance: Valdemar has been playing pools for ''years'' with the ''same'' numbers before finally winning 1 954 120 Swedish kronor.

* GamblersFallacy[=/=]MillionTooneChance: Valdemar has been playing pools for ''years'' with the ''same'' numbers before finally winning 1 954 120 Swedish kronor.

[[caption-width-right:350: [[{{Epigraph}} "My whole life I've been longing for a place like this"]].]]

->''Life will never get better than this. Never better than this.''

Valdemar Roos, almost 60 years old, seems like a boring person. He is unhappily married to Alice and works for 20 years for the same company and awaits nothing more eagerly than a change in his boring life. One day, he wins almost 2 Million Swedish crones playing pools, but instead of telling somebody about it, he quits his hated job and buys "Lograna", a cabin deep in the woods, and starts a second life, pretending to his family that he goes to his job every morning. He spends his days simply enjoying life and taking walks. Meanwhile, a young woman called Anna runs away from a drug withdrawal home after being mistreated, and runs into Valdemar and his cabin while looking for a shelter. At first, Anna is timid and avoids meeting Valdemar personally, but after some time the two get to know each other better and become friends. Soon after though, Anna's brutal ex-boyfriend Steffo manages to track Anna and attacks her, whereby Steffo gets killed by either Anna or Valdemar. From now on, Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti has to investigate this crime.

* GamblersFallacy[=/=]MillionTooneChance: Valdemar has been playing pools for ''years'' with the ''same'' numbers before finally winning 1 954 120 Swedish crones.

''Berättelse om herr Roos'' ("The story about Mr Roos") is a crime novel written by [[Creator/HakanNesser Håkan Nesser]] in 2008 and the third book in the ''Barbarotti series''.

* LackOfEmpathy: Averted with Steffo. Steffo once told Anna from a session at a psychotherapist; and that the psychotherapist told Steffo that children who abuse animals don't understand that the animals feel pain and that some people will never understand that, even later in life, and that she hopes that Steffo is not one of these people. Steffo then told her that he isn't, because when he once broke the wings of his sister's canary bird, he actually ''did'' understand that the bird was feeling pain and ''enjoyed'' it. Anna is understandingly disgusted and terrified after hearing this.

Valdemar Roos, almost 60 years old, seems like a boring person. He is unhappily married to Alice and works for 20 years for the same company and awaits nothing more eagerly than a change in his boring life. One day, he wins almost 2 Million Swedish crones playing pools, but instead of telling somebody about it, he quits his hated job and buys "Lograna", a cabin deep in the woods, and starts a second life, pretending to his family that he goes to his job every morning. He spends his days simply enjoying life and talking walks. Meanwhile, a young woman called Anna runs away from a drug withdrawal home after being mistreated, and runs into Valdemar and his cabin while looking for a shelter. At first, Anna is timid and avoids meeting Valdemar personally, but after some time the two get to know each other better and become friends. Soon after though, Anna's brutal ex-boyfriend Steffo manages to track Anna and attacks her, whereby Steffo gets killed by either Anna or Valdemar. From now on, Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti has to investigate this crime.

[[caption-width-right:350: [[{{Epigraph}} My whole life I've been longing for a place like this]].]]

->''"Life will never get better than this. Never better than this."''

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's never told in which country the fictional city of Maardam is. Sometimes it's even assumed that it's in a fictional country.

* LackOfEmpathy: Averted with Steffo. Steffo once told Anna from a session at a psychotherapist; and that the psychotherapist told Steffo that children who abuse animals don't understand that the animals feel pain and that some people never understand that, even later in life, and that she hopes that he isn't one of these people. Steffo then told her that he isn't and how broke the wings of his sister's canary bird, that he actually ''did'' understand that the bird was feeling pain and that he ''enjoyed'' it. Anna is understandingly disgusted and terrified after hearing this.

* TheAlcoholic: Anna's mother and late father.